Business leaders are not there to 'know enough' about technology. Their function is to hire the right experts to do that.

Of course, listening to those experts and making an effort to understand their recommendations *is* part of the leader's role.

I would pay actual money for a browser that had *no* sound capability.

Or even just one that I could reliably disable sound on.

While the injustice was definitely egregious, the original injustice was not the reason for all 77 years of the 'delay'.

Disruption would require innovation; I don't expect we'll see any of that from the music industry in the foreseeable future.

The analogy is

A whole lot of people used a hammer to drive screws. People who don't own any screwdrivers should learn when to use hammers and when to use screwdrivers.

How is this news? Everyone was saying this when PowerPoint first came out.

I know it seems like tourists are an infinitely-renewable resource, but how can we be sure?

1. Every species has value.

2. Every species does not have infinite value.

Eradicating mosquitoes would undoubtedly have some unforeseen negative ecological dislocations.

But we're talking about mosquitoes; I'm willing to take the risk.

The privacy concerns are troubling, but I can't help thinking that's pretty cool.

Good to know that the exceedingly wealthy will not be suffering from slight inconvenience. And to think I was worried about the possible loss of irreplaceable ecological assets...

This is highly informative! I couldn't sure until now, but the fact that they avoid using terms like 'bubble' that everyone can understand, and use Orwellian language, pretty much confirms that it's actually a bubble.

What's really sad is the EU is actually effective, in relative terms, in slowing down the descent into feudalism.

In Canada politicians spend enormous effort trying to out-compete each other in selling out to American corporations and American money.

...was considered a great advance for world peace by almost the entire planet.

Are we sure corporations didn't get their recruiting style from jihadists and crusaders?

Corporations just tend to be a little more subtle about their attitudes to the human pawns they exploit to subvert enlightened civilization.