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Are today’s tech bosses more powerful than Rockefeller? | The Economist
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2:57Now PlayingThe tech titans’ almost god-like control over AI is sure to shape the future. But it’s not the first time in America's history that a small group of men have amassed enormous wealth and power by driving a new technology. So how did America handle the “robber barons” like J.D. Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan in the Gilded Age?
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