CrowdStrike: the massive companies you’ve never heard of with a hidden grip on our lives

By John Bryson, Professor of Enterprise and Competitiveness, University of Birmingham

The world is saturated by services and products provided by companies that have a “secret grip” on the way we live. In 1951, the French-born American industrial designer Raymond Loewy described a typical day “of the average guy” from the moment he wakes up until he goes to bed. The point being that the average guy’s life was saturated with designed products.

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