There is some truth in this article, but it also seems a little bit simplistic and/or watered down. It's not really about who owns the biggest computer, it's mu

There is some truth in this article, but it also seems a little bit simplistic and/or watered down. It's not really about who owns the biggest computer, it's much more than that. Just access to processing power would not have made facebook and google big, so why should it work in the future? Also, automation has been replacing traditional jobs for almost 200 years now, and we are mostly better off now then we were then. After some rough time always learned to profit from automation as a society. Maybe, as automation accelerates, the rough time won't stop anymore - like eternal september - but my bet is that we learn to cope with that too...