It reminds me of this off shore city facebook wanted to build or something like that.
The problem with big money and big idea people, is that at some point they want to build a new world, but if you ask them about the old world, they don't have a solution, and deep inside they would rather see the old world burn to the ground. They're not even obsessed with power, they just want to build new things like they built an app in 1 month, to see if it could work, because the idea is sound and that it might solve many problems.
Those guys always have big big ideas but the truth is that they have absolutely no clue how the actual real world have been working for centuries and what are the real cogs of human society. It's like history doesn't matter, and that silicon made everything completely obsolete.
If you understand this, in a way, you can definitely understand why China has a big firewall. And frankly it sounds like the internet has just turned into a big advertising, political propaganda machine that just turn people into consumerist monkeys. Of course it's serving american hegemony pretty well, especially if you look at how google is siphoning data all over the world. I'm glad that countries are realizing that internet is not the cool thing of the 90s anymore.
What's weird is that facebook is now a thing for old people, the young doesn't even use facebook. I stopped using facebook in 2010 so I would never have known anyway.
Frankly there are days I wish the internet would collapse. GDPR is already setting a big fight, the battle against US digital giants is far from being over and I hope it keeps going.
Thanks, this resonates. But "there are days I wish the internet collapse" made me laugh! After how long will the internet be part of the old world, which the young disrupters wish would burn down so they could build something new instead? Maybe since it existed.
The problem with big money and big idea people, is that at some point they want to build a new world, but if you ask them about the old world, they don't have a solution, and deep inside they would rather see the old world burn to the ground. They're not even obsessed with power, they just want to build new things like they built an app in 1 month, to see if it could work, because the idea is sound and that it might solve many problems.
Those guys always have big big ideas but the truth is that they have absolutely no clue how the actual real world have been working for centuries and what are the real cogs of human society. It's like history doesn't matter, and that silicon made everything completely obsolete.
If you understand this, in a way, you can definitely understand why China has a big firewall. And frankly it sounds like the internet has just turned into a big advertising, political propaganda machine that just turn people into consumerist monkeys. Of course it's serving american hegemony pretty well, especially if you look at how google is siphoning data all over the world. I'm glad that countries are realizing that internet is not the cool thing of the 90s anymore.
What's weird is that facebook is now a thing for old people, the young doesn't even use facebook. I stopped using facebook in 2010 so I would never have known anyway.
Frankly there are days I wish the internet would collapse. GDPR is already setting a big fight, the battle against US digital giants is far from being over and I hope it keeps going.