Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
In the mad scramble to build virtual worlds, today's globe-spanning Internet giants may be unconsciously replicating the worst artifacts of the colonial era. In this video presentation you will learn about the process of dematerialization (AKA vaporization) and how it has spurred the rapid growth of enormously successful multinational corporations. And yet today's Web giants are not the biggest nor the most powerful corporations in history. They are dwarfed by the British East India Company and the Dutch East India Company. And today's Internet giants seem to be hellbent on repeating the worst blunders of the colonial period from 1450 to 1850.
In the mad scramble to build virtual worlds, today's globe-spanning Internet giants may be unconsciously replicating the worst artifacts of the colonial era. In this video presentation you will learn about the process of dematerialization (AKA vaporization) and how it has spurred the rapid growth of enormously successful multinational corporations. And yet today's Web giants are not the biggest nor the most powerful corporations in history. They are dwarfed by the British East India Company and the Dutch East India Company. And today's Internet giants seem to be hellbent on repeating the worst blunders of the colonial period from 1450 to 1850.
