Every tech has its downsides. I guess the hackers would rise up to meet the challenge and provide viable alternatives... but as of late, like with most things, Corporations have come to dominate the day-to-day life of normal human-beings.<p>Who wants to host their content in the cloud on servers they don&#x27;t control?<p>Who wants to buy a netbook with nothing but Google Apps on them, collecting data to show even more targeted Ads?<p>Who wants to install Chrome (a closed-source browser) when Firefox and others provide much more transparency and privacy-controls?<p>Who wants a phone that tracks your location and reports it to World&#x27;s most powerful AI company at every instant?<p>Who wants an on-demand-taxi app that tracks your movement inch-perfect, stores your payment and personal information, and keeps the record of your usage till, probably, end of time instead of... well... hailing a cab right off the corner?<p>Who wants to trust entities that hold your money in their coffers and in return show &quot;digits&quot; on-screen as a proof of presence of &quot;actual&quot; money?<p>Who wants to fly in giant metal-tubes, over which one has has no control whatsoever-- from who&#x27;s flying, to what food that would be served, to what kind of hygiene is maintained, to the safety procedures followed, to the transparency into ways in which your baggage is handled, or your booking information, for that matter?<p>Who wants to drive a relatively smaller metal-tube on roads with other drunkards and addicts? Why are tax-dollars wasted on initiatives that present such grave dangers-- where someone else&#x27;s mistake ends up costing someone else entirely?<p>Sure, there&#x27;s always a real and present danger. You gain some, you loose some.<p>--<p>For me, it was about time someone made ubiquitous computing main-stream. It can only be good for the tech-ecosystem. Google seems in a prime-position to better Amazon&#x27;s offering, if it hasn&#x27;t done already through its home-products division, Nest.