History doesn't repeat, but it certainly rhymes

And swings back and forth. In 10 or 20 or 40 years there will be something about liberating computing from the cloud overlords. The last major swing in that direction: the home/personal computers of the 70/80s. An higher harmonic: owncloud and all the current self hosted services, but we're still swinging towards centralization.

The environment problem does not really allow for the American dream of 1:1 ownership.

I have little sympathy for a generation raised on such notions who see it all as theft. No such legal contract exists.

It makes me wonder how the next generations would feel about a stable environment being taken.

But we won’t be around and have our social orders so ...