I think they’re insinuating themselves between all of us, and they’re going to use that position to control things, once they have it all locked down, if they ever do. That’s the way business works. If you work inside Google and think it works differently, then I think you’re naive. I don’t think it makes you a bad person, or incompetent. My concerns about Google are not personal criticisms of you. I don’t know you. I’ve been building up to writing this piece for a long time, and I doubt if many people will read it, or care. But I wanted to say it. I don’t think we can afford to view politics or technology as we view baseball. In baseball, I can personally insult Yankees fans, or condescend to Cubs fans, or feel a soulful affinity with fellow Mets fans, and it’s all fun. Because we know it totally doesn’t matter. But these other things do matter. So we really can’t afford to think of it as Us vs Them. It’s not Republicans vs Democrats, it’s Americans deciding what we want our government to do. And in technology, it’s the people of the world, in very much the model of Jefferson, deciding what we want to be. And not having corporations and their need for profit, be the sole determinant.
