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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
slavakion... onus is on you the thread starter to start the discussion...
you said it made you think... what did it make you think about?
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Well, I didn't want to give away what the flash was all about, that's why I was vague.
But it makes you think about growing businesses, especially Google. Right now, they're our best friend, giving us a pantload of email space, an awesome search engine, and more. I was too young to know anything at the time, but wasn't Microsoft the same when it started? Friend to technophiles everywhere? Now look; MS is reviled by the masses for its business practices and for its products. Corporations everywhere (at least in America) are merging to form super-corporations. Bank of America, Time Warner, Verizon. Is an all-encompassing Borg like EPIC really hard to imagine? And then the fallout, the result of EPIC: news reduced, mixed, edited down to insipid trivia meant to placate the masses. I had flashbacks to the seashells from Fahrenheit 451. I had flashbacks to the vid-screens from 1984.
What did it make me think of? Too much to articulate properly.