The argument goes back before all that shit when it was just GNU/Linux.

Stagnation doesn't mean failure. Just look at MacOS 9. Apple took a bunch of shit and glued it together after that thing died. Just goes to prove no one just builds something 100% from scratch. Apple is just good at taking credit for it.

Individual liberty and Freedom did not hardly exist for the entirety of human civilization. Things are far too complicated do fall into your prediction. We can look at the Industrial Revolution. Obviously there are books on this, but things progressed from kids working in coal mines to the 8 hour work day. People are becoming more informed on things like AI. And powerful people on all sides are starting to realize we can't have a select few just people spying on other people. Genetically bred humans in the near future is complete bullshit. That will be a huge debate that will take a century even if we have the technology. Just look at abortion. We aren't doomed.

AI and superhumans is a really awesome EOTWAWKI. Getting tired of zombies personally.

Why hasn't Stallman been in the NYtimes in the past 30 years. It's hard to feel bad for anyone at this point in the these matters.

The whole thing that makes a mathematicianâ(TM)s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues. -knuth

I think IRC was probably the best way for large numbers of people to have real-time conversations.

By that time the robots will have taken over or offer enough leverage for Amazon.

They don't care what OS you use as long as they can sniff your packets and restrict your encryption.

You paint an accurate picture. My how things change.

Amen. A computer is a computer for the most part. Maybe it's just me but I'm tired of people obsessing over new input/output. I mean, I get it; I like better fidelity and resolution every couple years, but these aren't groundbreaking breakthroughs. This stuff gets overblown because of marketing. Consequently, a lot of the most admirable (non sponsored) posts around here these days are in areas like biology, astronomy, and physics.

Well yeah if you want to get into details.

Kinda crazy to think it hasn't even been 100 years since technology was used to systematically cull the world of undesirable people through historically unprecedented violent means.

Should have listened to Stallman. I mean seriously it's a sad reflection on society when 100 millions of people just give everything to an unaccountable company and then cry about it later. It's really hard to have sympathy but honestly what where these people thinking? IN 2018 gullibility, peer pressure, and naivety still rule human behavior.

Oh great, so further merging with the feds? It keeps getting better.