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This chatter of "what are they REALLY doing!?!?!" is so tired. By the way did you know that YOU ARE THE PRODUCT!?!?. Yeesh. What would you do if you were a m
by blhack 14y ago
This chatter of "what are they REALLY doing!?!?!" is so tired. By the way did you know that YOU ARE THE PRODUCT!?!?.
Yeesh.
What would you do if you were a multi billionaire with one of the largest, if not the largest, tech companies in the world?
I would probably do things like:
1) Try to give everybody in the world free internet
2) Try to build sci fi stuff like autonomous cars, or drones that protect rhinos
3) Offer free computing resources to non-profits that align with my view of the future
4) Fund projects that I find interesting. I don't care if they make money, because I have shitloads of money.
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Honestly, my friends and I are mostly /already/ doing these things, just on much smaller scales (we're not billionaires.
Go check out a hackerspace some time. If you're in the Bay, go to Ace Monster Toys in Oakland, if you're in Phoenix, go to Heatsync labs in Mesa. I will buy you a beer if you do :)
- FireBeyond 14y ago"1) Try to give everybody in the world free internet" Because, of all the areas that is just crying out for free or subsidized internet, Chelsea, Manhattan, with a median income of $81,000 and less than 4% below the poverty line, is just at the head of the line.
- daeken 14y agoGoogle's NYC office is in Chelsea. It's a natural and easy spot to give out free Internet -- after all, there's a metric fucktonne (the only appropriate unit to use for the quantity involved) of fiber sitting there.