Re:The Silicon Valley Economy Is Here. and It’s a Nightmare
by breck on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:15AM
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I largely agree with your sentiment, except for this:
> put all the worlds knowledge at your fingertips?
I think this is a dream that has passed by. There's a lot of simplified knowledge now on the web, littered with ads, but we are far from having the worlds knowledge at our fingertips.
Instead we get a slow, controlled leak, of very noisy data, accompanied by as many ads as possible.
If you truly want access to the world's knowledge, you have to work for one of a handful of elite companies, pay an exorbitant amount for premium databases, or get it illegally via tools like scihub.
> put all the worlds knowledge at your fingertips?
I think this is a dream that has passed by. There's a lot of simplified knowledge now on the web, littered with ads, but we are far from having the worlds knowledge at our fingertips.
Instead we get a slow, controlled leak, of very noisy data, accompanied by as many ads as possible.
If you truly want access to the world's knowledge, you have to work for one of a handful of elite companies, pay an exorbitant amount for premium databases, or get it illegally via tools like scihub.