A lot of people might think this is a bit premature, but I'm struggling to figure out which company will inherit the "evil empire" mantle from Microsoft. Right now, I'm betting it will be AOL Time Warner, but I've been fooled before.
The evil empire is the company that, in any given era, happens to represent a catastrophic threat - sometimes real, often imagined - to civilization as we know it. For decades, it was John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, followed by such titans as General Motors, Dow Chemical, AT&T, IBM and finally, of course, William H. Gates III and his Redmond monopoly.
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