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Just remember that this has been coming down the pike for much longer than consumers had computers in our households. Even if we'd never picked up Atari 2600s a
by Eleison23 4y ago
Just remember that this has been coming down the pike for much longer than consumers had computers in our households. Even if we'd never picked up Atari 2600s at Sears by the truckload, even if we'd never hauled home VIC-20 and C-64 and Apple ][ systems, this would've been foisted on us. Because Corporate America moved to the cloud before we did. Corporate America was on the Internet before consumers were. Corporate America were all early adopters, right after the Department of Defense and military branches adopted it all too. And in-between that was the R&E sector, that is, universities, think tanks, etc.
There used to be a high-traffic mailing list called "com-priv". It was about the commercialization and privatiztion of the Internet. This was, of course, a foregone conclusion, no matter how much the little guy fought back. The Internet was designed from the ground up to take over business, because that's where it was born and suckled until it was mature enough.
- enos_feedler 4y agoYes. I worry very much that the internet will lose it's end user utility and become something that is simply infrastructure for deploying and operating commercial products and services. We are far along the path, but the story isn't over yet. The internet can still be saved for users.
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