The document discusses emerging technologies that are enabling new business models and opportunities, including more powerful and less expensive hardware, open-source software, ubiquitous networks, machine learning, and cloud computing. It notes how companies like Amazon, Apple, and Netflix have dominated certain industries by leveraging these technologies. However, it suggests there remains an opportunity for a company to take a similar approach and become the "God server" for industry and infrastructure.

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6. • More powerful, less expensive components
• High-level programming languages, open-
source operating systems
• Ubiquitous networks
• Supply chain as a service, Shenzhen
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Enablers from hardware

7. • Big data mentality
• Machine learning, computer vision
• As-a-service model
• Cloud computing
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Enablers from software

8. • Books: Amazon
• Music: Apple
• Movies: Netflix
• Industry and infrastructure: ?
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The God server

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12. What’s a “tech” company, anyway?

13. Almanac publishers, exclusively on Internet
Greeting card publishers, exclusively on Internet
Special interest portals (e.g., parents sharing
information about child rearing, etc.), Internet

14. Everything is a “tech” company now.

15. —Tim O’Reilly
“Work on stuff that matters.”