A realpolitik view of tech only holds under the assumption that any new technology is good technology. It allows nothing to balance or sustainability, and I believe the trajectory of the Web is unsustainable and therefore fundamentally doomed despite its near-term wonders.
The SV camp has said nothing to convince me otherwise.
>Where the funding comes from is practically irrelevant, specially if it is a feedback function (i.e., an economic phenomenon, not "phone the legislature to fund more research!!1").
I preper phoning the legislature -- more democratic and less private interests-driven.
Where the funding comes from is practically irrelevant, specially if it is a feedback function (i.e., an economic phenomenon, not "phone the legislature to fund more research!!1").
New funding models are good, too, of course. But the tone of the anti-ad camp is asinine.