@michaelchampion@indieweb.social
Post #1385020
2022-12-19 19:27 UTC
@robin @cdub @danbri
2. Wu argues (quoting from https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/books/review/Leonhardt-t.html)
'History shows a typical progression of information technologies,” he writes, “from somebody’s hobby to somebody’s industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel — from open to closed system.” Eventually, entrepreneurs or regulators smash apart the closed system, and the cycle begins anew.'
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@michaelchampion@indieweb.social 2022-12-19 19:31
@robin @cdub @danbri 3. That's been my experience in the tech industy -- In the 70's we bemoaned the dominance of IBM and ATT and dreamed of a world free of their self-preserving obstruction. In the '80s-90s they had been displaced and now Microsoft was the evil dominant power holding back progress. Then in the 2000's (ahem, I sold my soul and was assimilated into Microsoft) but Google became the oppressive central power on whom we blame everything