<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Forgot to hit Reply-All, oops<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 2, 2018, at 13:46, John Day <<a href="mailto:jeanjour@comcast.net" class="">jeanjour@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Agreed. The computer as phone was inevitable. It was significant that Jobs’ sense of design and what it should be kicked it off. I hate to think what the first ones could’ve been. ;-)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">John<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 2, 2018, at 13:05, Andrew G. Malis <<a href="mailto:agmalis@gmail.com" class="">agmalis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Andy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:59 AM, Noel Chiappa <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu" target="_blank" class="">jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><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 class="">
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</span>Content-wise, quite good. I had only one minor quibble:<br class="">
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But the lesson to remember from history is that companies on their own are<br class="">
incapable of big inventions like personal computing or the internet.<br class="">
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Generally true, but it's not impossible: look at Xerox PARC. So "usually<br class="">
incapable" would have been better.<br class="">
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And two editorial nits that drive me crazy: i) It's 'the Internet'<br class="">
(capitalized); there are many internets, but only one Internet, just as there<br class="">
are many white houses, but only one White House. ii) 'her xxx' (for a generic<br class="">
person) is in no way a real improvement over 'his xxx'; 'their xxx' is an<br class="">
allowed form for an indeterminate singular person of no particular gender.<br class="">
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Noel<br class="">
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