> On Star Trek though the computer runs on free energy and is just a tool. Google has to make money. Right. As I think ahead, though, the only tools we're esse

> On Star Trek though the computer runs on free energy and is just a tool. Google has to make money. Right. As I think ahead, though, the only tools we're essentially getting are from commercial companies. Even our own governments (worldwide) are running these tools from the same commercial sources. I'm not aware of any solutions being built now for the kind of interconnected future (smart homes, smart cars, smart "news", etc) that isn't centralized and also coming from commercial sources (Google, Amazon, etal). The Star Trek/2001 analogy is about an OS system that isn't too dissimilar to our own connected future. Instead of handling a Star Ship, these systems would be running smart homes, managing our lives. That's a lot of profiling in the hands of a few companies (and their "partners") who may not have the best intentions.