Annalex,
Outstanding! Alas, someone on a blog-site is making a deeper connection in regard to this issue. I would only add this: there is a triumverate of interests at play here, not merely a duality.
Big Business, Big Government, and Big Science are an unholy Trinity, joined together and mutually feeding off of one another, wittingly or not, "cloning the same low-quality man" (as the novelist Musil once put it in his novel about the decline of the Austro-Hungarian empire and its replacement by consumerist society).
Big Science limits the scope of human knowledge to that which can be conceived on analogy to human factum, orienting all human intellectual resources to the goal of technological mastery, assimilating man himself to the machines that he creates. Big Business and Big Government provide all the resources that they can muster to keep this state of affairs alive. For Big Business, there is money to be made (an endless array of new consumer goods produced, creating needs and desires where none existed before). For Big Government, there is power to be garnered(by, as you recognize, the abolition of the free individual and responsible moral agent, so that all will be enslaved to Moloch of the State).
ID points to a type of knowledge that is not essentially utilitarian and so cannot be manipulated for the accrual of money and power. That makes it quite threatening indeed...
I don't understand what you are referring to.
For Big Business, there is money to be made
That is true. The overregulated, litiguous business environment that passes for capitalism today makes true individualistic entrepreneurialism difficult to the point of impossibility, and favors big business catering to the mass market. It is easier to sell 1,000 hamburgers than a single gourmet meal. So, the big business becomes dependent on the miseducated masses, and the third leg of the triumvirate is formed.