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

[John Day]

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> On Jul 2, 2018, at 11:59, 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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