No unhinged computers for the people as predicted years ago by Cory. Cory Doctorow has a great talk: "The coming war on general computation" from 2011 (12 yea

No unhinged computers for the people as predicted years ago by Cory. Cory Doctorow has a great talk: "The coming war on general computation" from 2011 (12 years ago) in which he argues that all general computing platforms (OS, phone OS, browser) would face challenges by governments and corporations. This looks like another way to control content distribution and put more control in Google's hands. They've made a great strategic choice in building Chrome browser and effectively superseded Microsoft and Apple on desktops as a platform. The talk can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg BTW, in the Soviet Union you couldn't have bought radios that were freely tunable to certain frequencies. The same was done in Warsaw where German occupation forces collected all radios from the people. Future doesn't look good for freedom ... When the tools exists, people that control them would find a use. Look what's happening in the UK cryptography battle, the same trend there ...