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  1. Apr 2018
    1. Many consumer advocates have argued that if the rules get scrapped, broadband providers will begin selling the internet in bundles, not unlike how cable television is sold today.

      I see how cable is a dying breed as the new generations only use streaming applications for a cheap monthly bill. Allowing the big telecommunications companies to place a fee on these apps is something that people are going to be really unhappy due the unfairness of it.

    2. Want to access Facebook and Twitter? Under a bundling system, getting on those sites could require paying for a premium social media package.

      I believe that this will not play out well for them once people see that they have to pay to broadcast themselves Im sure the subscriptions will decline.

  2. Feb 2018
    1. "Eversion ... signifies a turning inside-out of virtuality, a casting outward of the vinual into the space of everyday experience"

      His idea of eversion.

    2. the Internet ofThings, and the geospatial tum, one segment of new digital humanities practitioners

      internet of things is widely known and has a-lot of influence. They even have their own digital currency

    3. a state beyond cyberspace and VR. Novak argues, however, that the concept of immersion by itself is incomplete, that it "lacks a complementary concept describing the outpouring of vinuality onto ordinary space" (309, 311). That missing concept is eversion

      Seems like we are in the future now with all the VR simulators that are for sale.

    1. Amazon sells the same products as competitors such as Barnesandno-ble.com, and it receives the same product descriptions, cover images, and editorial content from its vendors. B

      All the fortune 500 hundred companies on this article were well established with the web early on , making them the company they are today.

    2. Google’s breakthrough in search, which quickly made it the undisputed search-market leader

      Market leader but also very innovative, Google is one of the few company who can control the markets, and have their hands in different buckets. Not just a search engine like in the beginning they expanded to creating devices to keep up with the most popular trends.

    3. Many people concluded that the web was over-hyped, when in fact bubbles and consequent shakeouts appear to be a com-mon feature of all technological revolutions.1 Shakeouts typically mark the point at which an ascendant technology is ready to take its place at center stage

      There been many occasions where bubbles have happened in recent history. The dot com bubble was one of the first, the housing bubble of 2008 is the one that happened more recent and put the United States in a recession. These things happen when thing are being bought a higher speed than its being produced. Bitcoin is speculation of being the next bubble as the price has inflated 5000 percent in the last two years.