Google could get broken up this week. Here’s what it would mean.

A year ago a Federal District Court held that Google broke antitrust laws by using illegal means to maintain a monopoly over online search. This week the court is widely expected to decide what it wants to do about it.

The court has a menu of options. Will it break up Google (by ordering it to sell the Chrome browser or even Android)? Make it share valuable data with its rivals? All of the above?

The specific outcome obviously matters for Google and its operations. But the remedy’s truer significance is how it will shape the future of artificial…