'Google and Facebook more powerful than the CIA '

- Multinational companies like Facebook and Google have more technical knowledge than intelligence CIA and MI6.

Before that warns Professor Mary Cummings of the University of Duke. She calls the superpowers from Silicon Valley company states', their operations as a profit making business more and more in the fields of military, security services and governments of countries.

The combination with hundreds of billions in cash, massive development programs that recruit the brightest at high salaries, makes these companies more powerful than many countries in the world.

Companies that once started as social media or search engine, have through parts drones, self-propelled cars, robots and artificial intelligence more power at home than the army, Cummings states present at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The knowledge is with these companies become so large that follow their increased influence hardly in the world is for the general public.

But in recent years they have gained a lot more power at the expense of government, and specifically the Army, says Cummings.

Google and Facebook for example, are also working on plans to offer in areas outside the Internet, satellites and drones at high altitude. Thus they come directly to the site of the Air Force. In addition, the companies have a large cable network on the seabed.

The problem is that countries do not have control over the technology, but anyone can buy the Google robot technology.

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