I 've lived in Silicon Valley a little over 13 years now, and the only thing I' ve learned that nothing is permanent filter. When I first moved here, the "big fight," who wanted to dominate the tech landscape should be between Netscape, Microsoft and AOL are. No one had from eBay (- an online auction house - had a better business model and the people thought that "OnSale") to hear. Amazon was out, but was "to never be profitable." Google didn \ exist 't. The search engine of choice was AltaVista or Lycos. Social networking was a site called "SixDegrees." Seriously. It was a big hit in the summer of 1998 when all connect with their friends.

Just a few years ago, it was decided that the fight was for the Internet between the "big three" Google, Yahoo and Microsoft - better known as GYM known. Those three dominated the tech room and there was nobody else 'great' worth.

So, it 'to sa bit funny to see, says a new report that, today, there' sa "Gang of Four," the struggle to dominate the tech world. Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook Gaaf? AGAF? As in the past, so the article seems to think that this fight is the permanent state of the world, with these four is the only player. It tells how this battle raises antitrust concerns and worries less about openness.

However, I 'm with Adam Thierer in thinking this is completely \ overhyped "Chicken Little-ism."

Is not it funny how all the previous hand-wringing about the alleged dominance of today's large non-listed four to Microsoft, Intel, AltaVista, AOL, Yahoo, BlackBerry, or the old telcos? It would have been impossible to pin something on technology "dominance" over the past few years, and not to mention the company. Today, they rarely get a mention, except perhaps her fall from the upper echelons of tech titanium-dom highlight.

This week's big news was Google's bid for Motorola, which positions the search giant better for battle in the smartphone and tablet wars with Apple. Think about it: A company that didn't even exist 15 years ago and got started in a garage is now making telecom giants sweat. Meanwhile, Facebook, a company started in a college dorm, made News Corporation's $580 million bet on MySpace turn out to be a mega-turkey. Meanwhile, Apple had what former CEO John Sculley called a "near-death experience" just 15 years ago only to experience a Lazarus-like rebirth and revolutionize the computing, online music, and mobile device sectors. Finally, Amazon.com, along with Apple, has upended media distribution methods and forced mass media giants to rethink how content is priced, bringing prices down in the process.

This is capitalism at its finest, do not preach the disaster of the tech pessimists.

In five years, you can pretty much bet that we 'll a completely different group of companies with the aim to discuss tech dominance. Her are some of his crosses, but it 's likely that at least one company is on the list, one that you' ve rarely heard either today or you haven 't ever heard. The tech industry is ruthless and always changing. It 's hard at the top for very long, and any attempt to jump up close to things by clever entrepreneurs as an opportunity to compete with openness remains to be seen.

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