[ih] Review: Yasha Levine's "Surveillance Valley"

[Andrew G. Malis]

I don’t know, I would count the iPhone as a “big invention”. It completely
changed mobile telephony and created the entire app market.

Cheers,
Andy


On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:59 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:

>     > As promised, here is my review of Surveillance Valley.
>
> Content-wise, quite good. I had only one minor quibble:
>
>   But the lesson to remember from history is that companies on their own
> are
>   incapable of big inventions like personal computing or the internet.
>
> Generally true, but it's not impossible: look at Xerox PARC. So "usually
> incapable" would have been better.
>
>
> And two editorial nits that drive me crazy: i) It's 'the Internet'
> (capitalized); there are many internets, but only one Internet, just as
> there
> are many white houses, but only one White House. ii) 'her xxx' (for a
> generic
> person) is in no way a real improvement over 'his xxx'; 'their xxx' is an
> allowed form for an indeterminate singular person of no particular gender.
>
>         Noel
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