Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom
I’ve never met a person inspired by what we thought the Internet would be in the 90s who isn’t sad that it went the way it did. I suspect the more idealistic of the cryptocurrency people will also feel nostalgic when Goldman and JP Morgan run blockchain in a few years.<p>It’s extremely tempting, especially to technical people, to believe that some piece of technology will create net freedom and equality.<p>The reality is more mundane: technology is just a fancy word for tool, and the only thing the guillotine ever freed anyone from was tomorrow.