<div dir="ltr">I don’t know, I would count the iPhone as a “big invention”. It completely changed mobile telephony and created the entire app market.<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Andy</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:59 AM, Noel Chiappa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu" target="_blank">jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""> > As promised, here is my review of Surveillance Valley.<br>
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</span>Content-wise, quite good. I had only one minor quibble:<br>
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But the lesson to remember from history is that companies on their own are<br>
incapable of big inventions like personal computing or the internet.<br>
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Generally true, but it's not impossible: look at Xerox PARC. So "usually<br>
incapable" would have been better.<br>
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And two editorial nits that drive me crazy: i) It's 'the Internet'<br>
(capitalized); there are many internets, but only one Internet, just as there<br>
are many white houses, but only one White House. ii) 'her xxx' (for a generic<br>
person) is in no way a real improvement over 'his xxx'; 'their xxx' is an<br>
allowed form for an indeterminate singular person of no particular gender.<br>
<br>
Noel<br>
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