So I have long suspected Big Tech to be "reactionary wolves in visionary sheep's clothing"...ever since Larry Ellison declared "the network is the computer" and my assessment was basically that he was trying to bring back pre-1975 mainframe and minicomputer timeshare systems to reestablish the Old Computing Hegemony, but I didn't really talk about that much because even mildly suggesting this in the late 1990s make me sound like a paranoid crank.
Anyways in 2026 you have to be completely deluded to think anything else. Big Tech has been on a decades long mission with #CloudComputing to kill personal computing and reestablish the old order of a small number of Big Tech companies having complete control of the world's IT, and the #GenAI grift is part of their efforts to ensure people remain captive users who can only afford to rent "dumb terminals" (ie. "Smart" phones and tablets) to access and use their information.
This is NOT inevitable and it is NOT normal and it is NOT progress.
