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I will admit I maybe missing the point of your comment. Are you referring to the infiltration of large telecommunications and social media providers? If you a
by DamnYuppie 10y ago
I will admit I maybe missing the point of your comment. Are you referring to the infiltration of large telecommunications and social media providers? If you are referring to the underlying protocols themselves then it doesn't make much sense as packet based protocols were initially funded and built by the US Department of Defense.
- voxic11 10y agoHe is referring to technologies like Facebook which are controlled 100% by 1 person. Verses technologies like email which are not fully controllable by a single entity.
- niels_olson 10y agoHow is Facebook a technology? It's a database-backed website, complete with PHP and MySQL. What innovation is intrinsic to anything about Facebook?
- sangnoir 10y agoWait a sec - you're getting caught up in the minutae. OP said > This is what we get for designing systems with a low number (typically one) privileged centralized controlling body. The successive replies morphed the word into protocol and then technology, and here we are arguing how Facebook is in any way innovative in order to qualify as a technology - an argument totally disconnected from the one upthread.