Re: Apple, Google, AT&T…
Eric Reasons of The Tinker’s Mind writes in pointing us at his blog entry here. The conclusion sentence is what we need to be mindful of as the government tinkers (no offense, Eric) with innovation:
“The market has room for all of our tastes, and if the FCC is willing to exert pressure on Apple to “open up”, then they are just as likely to exert it on others to standardize towards some homogeneous handheld internet experience.”
GorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for retroinvention. The profits from this pay all the Gormogons’ bills, including subsidizing this website. Some of the products he has introduced from the future include oven mitts, the Guinness widget, Oxy-Clean, and Dr. Pepper. Due to his immense cybernetic brain, GorT is able to produce a post in 0.023 seconds and research it in even less time. Only ’Puter spends less time on research. GorT speaks entirely in zeros and ones, but occasionally throws in a ڭ to annoy the Volgi. He is a massive proponent of science, technology, and energy development, and enjoys nothing more than taking the Czar’s more interesting scientific theories, going into the past, publishing them as his own, and then returning to take credit for them. He is the only Gormogon who is capable of doing math. Possessed of incredible strength, he understands the awesome responsibility that follows and only uses it to hurt people.