This is the text of a talk I gave at the Capitalism, Culture and the Media conference at the University of Leeds last week.
It touches on some themes discussed in a bit more detail in this lecture I gave at Open School East earlier in the summer.
I will write this up into a proper article and get more into the stuff around the global historic bloc of Big Tech and Finance Capital (Wall St + Silicon Valley) when I get around to it. For now I thought I’d better put this online because people like the excellent Aditya are starting to quote me on the long ’90s thing…