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Re:Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of ... by lofaszvanitt on Saturday July 27, 2024 @04:38AM (#41085257)
"before we've even had a chance to experience both the upside and downside, so the innovation never happens at all."

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Let me laugh out loud. Those, who govern these companies know 10 years ahead how and what will happen. Bigdiks higher up has 10-20 year plans. And people talk about "before we had a chance to experience the upsides and the downsides". Get a grip on reality.

Re:Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of ... by pembrook on Saturday July 27, 2024 @05:55AM (#41085500)
Yea, so wildly out of touch with reality. The governing elite are wizards of prediction!

Sundar at Google knew LLMs were going to be huge after Google invented them, so that’s why they were first to market and…

Oops. Maybe not?

While it might make risk-averse types feel good to imagine the people in charge are all-knowing (see religion), the truth is the world is a chaotic and reflexive system of unpredictability. Scary, I know!

Re:Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of ... by scarface_74 on Saturday July 27, 2024 @04:46AM (#41085286)
Google didn’t know in 2006 where cell phones were headed. If they did, they wouldn’t have made an Android as a BlackBerry clone.

No company can accurately predict where technology is headed a decade from now.

Re:Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of ... by lofaszvanitt on Sunday July 28, 2024 @07:58AM (#41092658)
oakay
Re:Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of ... by scarface_74 on Sunday July 28, 2024 @01:37PM (#41094636)
You ever read the first edition of Bill Gates “The Road Ahead” where he didn’t even mention the Internet?

Google thinking the future of phones were BlackBerry clones?

Palm CEO “The PC guys aren’t just going to walk in a figure this thing out” referring to the then rumored iPhone.

Re:Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of ... by lofaszvanitt on Sunday July 28, 2024 @05:53PM (#41096251)
Predigested bs for people to ruminate about. Rather watch Tom & Jerry, that has much more profound thoughts.
Re:Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of ... by squigz on Saturday July 27, 2024 @11:42AM (#41087267)
I think you're the one who needs to get a grip on reality. There's no cabal of businessmen playing the world like a puppet. They don't have some secret knowledge of the future. They're often just as stupid as the rest of us, and prone to the same biases. If they were as prescient as you think, I assume companies would simply never fail - as others point out, they often miss things or make mistakes.
Re:Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of ... by lofaszvanitt on Sunday July 28, 2024 @07:57AM (#41092655)
zzzzzz who said this?
Re:Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of ... by squigz on Sunday July 28, 2024 @08:09AM (#41092712)
What?