Quoting William Gibson with, "The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet," Tim O’Reilly focuses on the fundamental issues of information for the present and future. A large portion of data across the Internet is processed by the government and a handful of corporations who, in turn, can control access to information that is invaluable to society.

In this MySQL Conference presentation, O’Reilly also discusses the conflict of the possibility of those few companies owning the majority of information and Internet services, predicting that these groups will look towards their own profits and growth as opposed to customer satisfaction. He also discusses the benefits of a cloud infrastructure – a system in which databases and applications are shared between companies to prevent monopolies and to increase efficiency and data connections. 

Noting the possibilities of open source data for health care, business, and day-to-day life, Tim O’Reilly frames the potential future with regards to business rules, ethics, and privacy.