Facebook is becoming more like an electric utility every day.
…
If Facebook starts to fail commercially, suddenly people over the world would be at risk of losing old friends and family ties, or perhaps critical medical histories.
…
Facebook is only one example of many recent highly successful network players that have made themselves essential in advance of making themselves sustainable.
- Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future?, emphasis mine
7 thoughts on “”
Likes
Reposts