Don’t worry, this is perfectly clear. On the other hand, the facts that you report – FAANG stock soaring as the economy nosedives, Bezos’s transcendent wealth – are true. And they point to that direction. In other words, even if you don’t buy the argument that “the data barons are giving us robust tools we need”, most people and governments do. I am making my point not to contradict you, but to contradict that narrative. Which, is guess what? once again this toxic, misleading idea of “innovation” as something done by “risk-taking” private entrepreneurs, who “create value” by their “creativity”. I am so tired of this.
Granted. I did write that remote office work was possible already in the 1990s.
This is a topic dear to our heart. Edgeryders has been trying to go stackless since forever. And I have been begging the Commission (DG CNECT, since it was still called Information Society) to fund an open source Google Docs equivalent as a digital common good, instead of all these close-to-market apps. It’s slow going, I can tell you that!