In twenty years we won’t be able to figure out how we got along without it...
I am no more enamored with the mindless “whole world system connected” Utopia, than any other Utopia.
When a wise philosopher said that “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutley” (or words to that affect) he may have been talking of only one sphere of human life, but it is completely applicable to any and all.
There will be nothing great, except to the Google’s of the world, about a single seamless “computer” that not only makes it possible to talk to other people with computers, but has all your stuff and everyone else’s stuff on it as well.
Individuality, not being part of the crowd, and not being the mere commodity for the business model of the one-world computer system is part of human nature. Living like ants on an ant farm, even in the virtual sense is not. It will fail, just as “time-sharing” for computer processing time failed in the 1980s.
Everyone wants their own home, not an apartment. It’s true for our own info and data as well.
Thanks Ernest.