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> Google has the ability to see, aggregate, and now influence what you write in Google docs and Gmail. Interestingly Microsoft has that power with the Office s
by makeitdouble 5y ago
> Google has the ability to see, aggregate, and now influence what you write in Google docs and Gmail.
Interestingly Microsoft has that power with the Office suite for nearly 40 years now (only a decade if we want to focus on the cloud connected area), do you see specific dystopian influences on society stemming from that ?
- alanh 5y agoThere is a big difference from the 'possibility' of adding remote reporting of local data (essentially zero for e.g. Word 95) vs. the possibility of having a server do one more thing with information already on the server (trivially easy)
- spaniard89277 5y agoYet they didn't do anything remotely similar for 40 years.