Amiga founder RJ Mical now works for Google

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Well, Ive completely stopped using google as my search engine a few months ago. Took a while to do since it was kinda "hardcoded" in my user patterns.
But now Ive gotten so used to duckduckgo.com that I dont even think about it. Obviously helps Ive made all my hardware use that searchengine as default.

That said; intresting speech.

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Yup.

I do agree with his speech and vision.

I do find the increasing connectivity both intresting and worrying.
People make information about themselves readily available on the net, with little care about
who might use it and how.

Techology is developing rapidly, but I think the average users understanding of it is not keeping up.

But overall progress is good, and Google is one of the driving forces in that regard.

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ptek;

Yeah, his comment was quite unpresicise, but the entertainment aspect of computing has helped driving development; be it hardware/software and the web.

Today you have millions upon millions of people spending alot of money yearly on hardware they dont really need, just do to get max performance with max visuals.
Take a look at Twitch.tv. The viewer count there has taken off quite a bit lately, people watching streamers and prize money competitions.
Some of the Esport events got massive 1st place prizes and its not slowing down.

As for youtube. Lately its become quite heavy on the adverts. I do realise it cost alot of money to maintain, but if they add much more between each stream, it might start to loose popularity (with me atleast )