@lauren The AT&T divestiture was right at the turning point of antitrust (whether cyclical or not). It was the last major effort of a superceded regime that people now are (hopelessly you think?) struggling to reinvigorate. I don't think the shape of the tech industry is captured by high-frequency political cycles. Particular forms of industry are better characterized by rise and fall than either stasis or cycle. Google, I think, is a dinosaur, whatever proves the asteroid.