You've missed all the rants about Windows 10?
Heh. Though BTR has a point. Microsoft, while big, is small potatoes nowadays compared to the likes of Google and Facebook and Apple. Even when Microsoft was the big boy on the block, it was more Gates talking about income equality, and taxing people and whatnot, and I don't recall any big Microsoft initiatives to "reengineer society".
The aforementioned companies however, seem to be talking about that a lot. As much as we might complain about the 'intrusiveness" of Win10 forced updates, etc., it's a thousand times less intrusive than what the other companies are doing. It's rather insidious too, because I hate how Google intrudes in my life, yet part of me is addicted to them as if they were a drug, what with maps, calendar, etc.
I used to just shrug my shoulders about that, but more and more of late - and I blame the whole lefty "resistance" that includes these companies - I've been becoming more and more sick of these people sticking their noses into my life. I'm actually thinking about Google alternatives. Something I could do now, but something that would be much, much harder to do if I were still working.
Saw a rant about this on the book of faces...
It pretty much boiled down to "neat ideas on upgrading cities, but cities grow organically because of jobs and stuff, doomed to fail"
I'd be more inclined to agree with that regarding Zuckerberg's city, which seems to be much more a social engineering experiment. I almost see Gates' city as something more of a "telecommuter society" experiment, where people can have many of the amenities of places like San Francisco without having to live in those big, expensive cities.
Personally, I prefer a telecommuter society that lets people telecommute from more places and environments. I, for example, would prefer to telecommute from a cabin in the sticks. However, I can see the appeal of Gates' city for many people, especially, ironically, people that work for Google and Facebook. :)
