| I guess he means you can only sell so much smoke before people get smart. I'm bullish on the internet as a medium, and teaching people how to use it, not Facebook or other "companies" selling smoke. If Facebook ceased to exist tomorrow, I could still keep in touch with all my Facebook friends. That's because I have their email addresses. And there are now easy ways to move big files outside of email. We can use VOIP. We can stream big data to each other with today's bandwidth. It's all possible because of the advance of technology. (Not because of Facebook.) When people know how to use the internet properly to do the things they do using Facebook (share photos, etc.), peer to peer, then we can get on with solving "real problems". Apple and Facebook and others are not educating the population how to use computers and the internet. As far as I'm concerned they are not solving a problem. They are perpetuating it for their own benefit. Keep users dumb, track everything they do, feed them ads and try to sell them stuff. We have internet savvy kids whose only thought is "What's the business model?" Maybe there is none. Why should Wikipedia exist? What purpose does it serve? We do not have to keep users dumb and feed them ads to move forward. Hardware is cheap, software is free, connectivity is cheap, bandwidth is cheap. Let's use the internet to help solve real problems, not pretend that keeping users dumb and showing them ads is getting us there. |