SW = IBM
7 Dwarfs = Burroughs, Sperry-Rand, CDC, Honeywell, GE, RCA, NCR
Through mergers/acquisitions are now: UNIVAC; Welsh,Carson, Anderson & Stowe; UNIX; Thompson of France, NCR
BUT the AI race is creating new Dwarfs.
SW = Watson/IBM Cloud
FB = MZ couldn't stop saying AI will solve all FB's problems in Hearings/ran Emotional Contagion experiment without user consent
Amazon = Amazon Web Service/REAN Cloud
Netflix = experimenting with AI for Cloud storage
Google = Google Glass (Michele R. Weslander Quaid) and Project Maven (ES calls Google an AI company not a data company)
They are all working with DoD to produce AI technology
Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud acquisition =
acting DOD CIO Essye Miller, DOD Chief Management Officer John Gibson and Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Ellen Lord and seemed very geared toward Amazon
Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Function Team, or AWCFT