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"Tech monopolies tend not to fall like Rome. They fall like Venice. They're still there, and no-one actually invades them, but the trade routes moved, the things that gave them power and wealth stop mattering, and they become just another city, and then a backwater." -- Benedict Evans (benedictevans), 2019-05-11 [next few tweets make the parallel clearer]