Anyone remember the 1963 series (am I dating myself now) “Burke’s Law”? It starred Gene Barry (RIP) as Burke and he had a telephone in his chauffeur-driven Rolls. Seriously, did I ever expect I wouldn’t have a land line but still have a phone? Go a step further: the vehicles we drive have greater computing power than landed Americans on the moon. Let’s not talk about the computers in our house, I personally use three older laptops and each with far greater capabilities than what once were considered high powered computers. Hmmm! Anyway you get the idea.

Fringe has captured my fancy and a few evenings back we started watching episodes from the first season. One of the early episodes finds Nina Sharp offering agent Olivia Dunham a position with Massive Dynamic. Nina explains (only paraphrasing) Massive Dynamic possesses untold technologies, the ability to deploy private military forces anywhere needed and resources to influence who is or is not in power anywhere on earth. Of course Nina was far more eloquent or possibly disconcertingly ominous.

Much as I believe government(s) should not control business the reciprocal is business should not control government(s). To keep this from becoming a political statement I’ll leave it at that.

Anyway over the next day or so Nina’s little discourse kept me wondering how much is fiction. What US company could the fictional Massive Dynamic be based upon? What all is General Electric involved with?

Am I serious? Nope, but…