Blurring Lines Between Private Organizations and Public Infrastructure

In April, 2020, Sally Hubbard, a director at the Open Markets Institute and a former assistant attorney general in New York's antitrust bureau, said that Amazon has "essentially become infrastructure” during the COVID age – articulating how our reliance on retail companies made it so. The same “infrastructure” framing can be applied to a handful of industries and organizations, from healthcare to heavy equipment to aerospace, illustrating the tightening relationship between essential public infrastructure and private sector outputs. It is essential to understand and contextualize this relationship, resulting opportunities, and big societal issues – from AI to climate change – impacting this dynamic in the future.

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