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

[Richard Bennett]

Conventional wisdom depend on anecdote for its propagation. A number of pieces of serious research have been cited on this thread, however.

> On Jul 5, 2018, at 12:36 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
>> From: Richard Bennett <richard at bennett.com>
> 
>> Organizations such as Bell Labs and IBM Research pretty much put a
>> dagger in the heart of 'big companies don't innovate'
> 
> Bell's a bad example, because it was a regulated monopoly; I gather things
> changed a lot after AT+T split up.
> 
> There are plenty of older examples people aren't bringing up, though, such as
> the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable.
> 
> Still, I think this whole debate is a perfect example of 'the plural of
> "anecdote" isn't "data"'.
> 
> 	   Noel
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Richard Bennett
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