Interesting how the technologies we dreaded in 2000 would mean the death of open computing are now being deployed and lauded as the bedrock software for servers that (in Google's words) "run the planet" https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614675/googles-new-chip-protects-the-cloud-where-its-most-vulnerable/ …
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For those not old enough or foolish enough to have been in tech at that time, the debate was around Microsoft's "trusted computing", which meant your device would no longer be your own to modify or experiment with. Today this battle is so lost we can't even open physical devices
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Today the debate has moved from device to browser, and we're losing it there too, also in the name of safety. Our industry's inability to write secure, or even securable software, has become a useful method for asserting centralized control
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A useful heuristic for non-tech people: beware any Google initiative prefixed with "Open"
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I don't mean this in some cheap shot "Google is lying" way. Rather, the open Google thing is usually a complement to something Google has monopoly control over.
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The ultimate lesson here is that whatever you most dread in tech today will be the celebrated status quo in 2040, except run by a new set of giant monopoly companies that came out of nowhere
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