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What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 23 2017, @03:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the a-narrow-view dept.

canopic jug writes:

Elizabeth Kolbert at The New Yorker writes about the implications that technology monopolies have for culture by asking "Who owns the Internet?". Three decades ago, few used the Internet for much of anything and the web wasn't even around. Today, nearly everybody uses the web, and to a lesser extent, other parts of the Internet for just about everything. However, despite massive growth, the Web has narrowed very much: "Google now controls nearly ninety per cent of search advertising, Facebook almost eighty per cent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about seventy-five per cent of e-book sales."

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 23 2017, @08:23PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 23 2017, @08:23PM (#558150)

    Plan9

    >This one is not like the others: Plan9 hasn't seen any use anywhere outside a research lab

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs#Impact [wikipedia.org]
    "Additionally, in Plan 9 from User Space, several of Plan 9's applications and tools, including the sam and acme editors, have been ported to Unix and Linux systems and have achieved some level of popularity."

    Plan9 was specifically for code development in a research environment, that's why it was made. There is no point in having Plan9 on one computer, it only comes into its own with multiple computers. It's a "distributed" OS. I see no reason it couldn't morph into an enterprise-level os, it's just not mostly used that way.

    > It might have some interesting ideas (I haven't looked too closely),

    It's pretty freaking sweet, if you ask me.

    http://9front.org/ [9front.org]

    THE PLAN FELL OFF!!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 23 2017, @08:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 23 2017, @08:26PM (#558153)

    Bell Labs best invention was 9gag [9gag.com].

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @12:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @12:15AM (#558673)

    Zero is some level of popularity.