Why Silicon Valley can’t fix itself
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Why Silicon Valley can’t fix itself
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#2This made me kind of nostalgic of the pre-Facebook days. I liked that version of the internet…
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#3The logic being someone else needs to fix it and these people would end up being those without any real skin in the game ?
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#4"...but the solutions they are offering could just help the big players get even more powerful." That's why we should support startups from outside the valley, especially the smaller ones.
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#5"...but the solutions they are offering could just help the big players get even more powerful." That's why we should support startups from outside the valley, especially the smaller ones.
Geographical diversity almost never gets mentioned.
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#6The logic being someone else needs to fix it and these people would end up being those without any real skin in the game ?
I think the logic is that those who caused the problem won't fix it (or they would have already). They have financial interest in not fixing it. Though I do expect a mix of voluntary and forced improvements, now that there is awareness. That's not a very daring prediction because both have already started ;)
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#7This made me kind of nostalgic of the pre-Facebook days. I liked that version of the internet…
Don’t worry. I believe breaking the internet up back into small parts is a going to be a big trend in the coming years.
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#8This made me kind of nostalgic of the pre-Facebook days. I liked that version of the internet…
Don’t worry. I believe breaking the internet up back into small parts is a going to be a big trend in the coming years.
Breaking the internet? No. Breaking huge near-monopolies into smaller companies - I'd love to see it happen, but it never will.
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#9"...but the solutions they are offering could just help the big players get even more powerful." That's why we should support startups from outside the valley, especially the smaller ones.
Who is "we" and what does "support" mean?
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#10This made me kind of nostalgic of the pre-Facebook days. I liked that version of the internet…
I think a big part of it was that the internet still had a lot of artifacts from the pre-advertising model days.
I think we're being blindsided by just how bad the side effects of the advertising model are for media. In general, not just for the internet. It's done unbelievable damage to our culture, but it's slow and indirect and difficult to predict or quantify. Like asbestos, tetraethyl lead, carbon dioxide, etc. Those are the technologies you have to watch out for.
today we essentially define our culture and personal identities with advertising demographics and terminology. We've commoditized ourselves so thoroughly that any alternative is unimaginable and sounds silly to us.