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Not predicting what will happen thirty years hence is naive? The web was all shiny goodness and going to be a panacea for anything you could name back in the la
by tclancy 6y ago
Not predicting what will happen thirty years hence is naive? The web was all shiny goodness and going to be a panacea for anything you could name back in the late 90s. The fact that it did not come to pass isn’t naïveté so much as a disappointing repeat of what our current economic systems of reward drive companies to do.
- frabcus 6y agoThe general pattern was predictable - I was involved in making an early ad blocker in 1996. Adbusters magazine was a thing then. Technically, the detail of super-cookies is inventive and surprising. The general trend for how capitalism inevitably both uses and abuses advertising was predictable.