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Why does Hacker News like to support some industries, like Electric Cars, and Rust, and Nuclear Fusion, and wants to destroy others like the ability for people

• xigoi 4y ago
  Because climate change is bad for society and universal access to information is good for society.
• absolutelynobo 4y ago
  The best way to succeed in a world already dominated is to adopt the strategy maximally confusing to the incumbents.
• INeedMoreRam 4y ago
  If some people want to pay for books (and they do) then they will. If they don't want to pay (and some don't) then they won't. My vote is for freeing as much information as possible so people can have options at their fingertips without draining their bank accounts.
• dredmorbius 4y ago
  It's a quite the foundational notion within the field, actually: Bush: <https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m...> (Archive: <https://web.archive.org/web/20120819084741/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120819084741/https://www.theat...>) Otlet: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundaneum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundaneum> <https://web.archive.org/web/20051227195507/http://people.lis.uiuc.edu/~wrayward/otlet/otletpage.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20051227195507/http://people.lis...> Wells: <https://archive.org/details/worldbrain00wells https://archive.org/details/worldbrain00wells>