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| From | Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: Ray Tomlinson, inventor of modern email, dies |
| Date | 2016-03-11 22:05 +0000 |
| Organization | NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 |
| Message-ID | <nbvfej118nl@news7.newsguy.com> (permalink) |
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On 2016-03-11, Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> wrote: > On Fri, 2016-03-11, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > >> Things have come full circle. In the '60s computing was centralized >> for the simple reason that computers were so expensive that only medium >> to large corporations could afford even one. The Internet and cheap >> personal computers made distributed processing possible. But now the >> pendulum has swung back, and computing is once again becoming centralized >> in the hands of agencies such as Google and Facebook. The Cloud is the >> final step, for those foolish enough to entrust themselves to it (or >> unfortunate enough to not know how to resist). > > True, but it's not enough for me. I want to communicate with the > foolish people I know and love across a medium controlled by us. Unfortunately, the foolish people fall for the flash and dazzle offered by the monopoly providers. > I wonder if that will ever happen. We were close in the early 1990s, > but that's over 20 years ago. Well, major social trends seem to run on about a 40-year cycle. Hang in there for another 20 years; hopefully the pendulum will swing back. (The foolish, alas, will remain foolish.) -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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