"The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself." (Peter Diamandis) It appears that Facebook and Google are in the creating your future mode. Facebook just announced on internet.org a Facebook creation, that Facebook would be "involved" in a drone program to get wi-fi to more people. Zuckerberg wants the whole world to be connected. But drones bringing you the internet so you can be on Facebook...seems far fetched.
Guest's on Bloomberg today had a discussion on why Facebook and Google are buying such an array of odd acquisitions. Charlie Warzel (buzzfeed) stated that these "technology moguls" are yearning to be visionaries in that they "want to alter the course of human history." Well, that is wide open. Alter our history how? By creating a future that so far they have not let us in on. It seems to me that "whatever" this future will be that they are creating...Facebook & Google are predicting, creating, and preparing for it through purchasing. But they can afford it but how is it democratic? Just because they are taking it to everyone...is this what everyone wants? Well, how would we know?
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