How did Big Tech come to rule the world?

At this moment Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and a handful of other tech companies rule the marketplace in the physical and digital worlds, hosting your e-mail address, your social media accounts, calendars and photos and providing you with phones, laptops, and other products. How did this come to be? What is the ceiling for Big Tech? Is data really the currency of the 21st century? We talked about this and more; enjoy!