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Beware the political rise of the world's tech titans

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Influential power-players and companies from the tech world are increasingly dipping their toes into the world of politics.

And that’s one of the biggest geopolitical risks going into 2016, argue Eurasia Group’s Ian Bremmer and Cliff Kupchan in their annual list of top risks.

“There’s much to be celebrated in the increasing power of the most technologically influential [and] governments witnessing this evolution will surely play along when they find it advantageous,” Bremmer and Kupchan write.

“But more often than not, the political rise of technologists will create conflicts between competing centers of power,” they warn.

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Source : BusinessInsider.Com