This one was foreseen, I think. Hmmm. Actually most of the uses of computing have been forseen, along with many uses that have not yet materialized.
Notice, too, how dependent the revolution was on the good will of Google. Fair enough. But Google is in the end a business, and who knows if its future management will be sympathetic to democratic revolutionaries? They are "not evil"--but will they stay that way?
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Date: 2011-02-18 01:55 pm (UTC)Notice, too, how dependent the revolution was on the good will of Google. Fair enough. But Google is in the end a business, and who knows if its future management will be sympathetic to democratic revolutionaries? They are "not evil"--but will they stay that way?