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

[John Day]

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> On Jul 2, 2018, at 13:46, John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 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.  ;-)
> 
> John
> 
>> On Jul 2, 2018, at 13:05, Andrew G. Malis <agmalis at gmail.com <mailto:agmalis at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> 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 <mailto: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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