Why no soviet internet?
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https://strelkamag.com/en/article/what-happened-to-the-soviet-internet
In the light of my talk at Summer School this year:
“Instead of creating a collaborative research environment, different self-interested agencies and bureaucrats diligently stood up only for their own agenda. The Soviet Union was unable to build its own internet—not because it lacked technologies or the institution of private property, but because it was impossible to get a project of this scale approved by all of the necessary agencies, whose interests it sometimes contradicted. ”
“Soon enough paper books, newspapers, and magazines will be no more. Every person will have an electronic notebook—a combination of a flat screen and a mini radio transmitter. No matter where you are in the world, if you key a specific code in the notebook, you will be able to summon texts and images from giant remote databases. This will forever replace not only books, newspapers, and magazines, but also television.”
Written in the mid-1980s
Apple are facing an antitrust suit. Apple are sitting on a cash pile of $81tn!
Apple is quietly building a search rival to Google ahead of the DOJ’s landmark antitrust case, according to a report
Apple is quietly building a rival to Google’s ubiquitous search engine, the Financial Times reported Wednesday, just as the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) landmark antitrust suit aims to break Google’s grip on worldwide search queries.
Google has been the iPhone’s default search engine for more than 10 years. The DOJ claims Google has paid Apple up to $12 billion a year for the arrangement — the deal is central to its antitrust case.
AJ will be pleased. I first saw this on the BBC. You may recall that Apple Maps, it’s attempt to produce its own Maps app, was a complete failure….
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