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I refuse to love Google, but I do have love in my heart for Sergey and Larry. imho, the foundations of the corporate ecology that we've built seems to favour t
by patcon 7y ago
I refuse to love Google, but I do have love in my heart for Sergey and Larry.
imho, the foundations of the corporate ecology that we've built seems to favour the creation of large companies with quite dehumanizing values at their core. The fact that Google has grown to such size and existed at all (even as imperfect form), that is a triumph of these two citizens.
They've built a metropolis out of plutonium, and miraculously we live good lives in it, largely without illness ;)
- mattkevan 7y agoWe’re living good lives in their metropolis of plutonium because we’re not yet fully aware of the consequences. Rather like how a hundred years ago people happily put radium in toothpaste and soap. Nothing better than a healthy glow to your morning routine - until the consequences arrive. What will be the result of building the sort of global, hyper-targeted surveillance and propaganda machines spearheaded by google and Facebook, and will our descendants think we’re as dangerously naive as we do about those who made radioactive chocolate?
- drdeadringer 7y agoI suggest you increase your chocolate rations from 25 grams to 20 grams, radioactivity or not.
- patcon 7y agoI do appreciate what you're saying here, so thank you. Don't get me wrong, I resist Google with all my might, and have actively organized against Sidewalk Labs in my city, and other projects from them. But I look at Amazon's Bezos and count myself relatively lucky to be living on a timeline where the magic beans that became Google ended up in the hands of someone quite UNLIKE him. Sinking money into moonshots (though sometimes misguided) and a diversity of experiments; that is much better than Bezos' unartful "growth above all else" mentality.