[elcritch]

> For once, Google doesn't need to pay and feed an army to dominate the ADV market or build castles surrounded by walls,

They don't need to _yet_ that is. I always found the imagery in _The Diamond Age_ of New Atlantis to be a fun steam punk take of a future in an alternative-history. However I can't help but think of it when I read about Amazon's "Helix" and 'Amazonia' in Seattle, or Apple's "Spaceship" complex, Google's ... etc.

Really, we just need a few more legal tenets of Manorism where workers can't leave their sanctioned tech estate, ahem https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/silicon-valleys-...