Ten years later, eight of the fortune 10 companies may be data-driven technology companies. The revenue of apple, Tesla, Google, Microsoft and Facebook will be between $500 billion and $1 trillion respectively.
In 2022, Amazon will become the world's largest revenue company. It is easy to believe that this event will represent a dividing point, symbolizing the day when the world will change from an energy and oil-based economy to a data-driven economy. The shift from oil to data represents the most important economic and geopolitical development in the past 100 years.
Oil has become the main driving force of rapid economic growth in the 20th century. The structure is centralized, the social goal is expanded rapidly, and the whole middle-class consumerism society is formed with the support of the oil economy. Oil has also had a far-reaching impact on the geographical map of the world, because countries and industries compete to obtain these resources( Test article)