I foresee the complete take over of the internet by those who control us behind the scenes. Soon enough our ability to freely travel the internet will be curtailed by paywalls and such. Knowing this to be true Goggle is slowly getting into other revenue streams because of the fact that their current business model will start to diminish as the noose tightens upon the free access to all of the internet that we all have known and enjoyed. Here is an angle point that misses this reality it seems...
"An Xconomy column [Friday] suggests that Google is getting too big.
When the company was younger, most of its acquisitions related to its
core businesses of search, advertising, network infrastructure, and
communications. More recently, it's been colonizing areas with a less
obvious connection to search, such as travel, social networking,
productivity, logistics, energy, robotics, and — with the acquisition
this week of Nest Labs — home sensor networks and automation. A Google
acquisition can obviously mean a big payoff for startup founders and
their investors, but as the company grows by accretion it may actually
be slowing innovation in Silicon Valley (since teams inside the
Googleplex, with its endless fountain of AdWords revenue, can stop
worrying about making money or meeting market needs). And by
infiltrating so many corners of consumers' lives — and collecting
personal and behavioral data as it goes — it's becoming an
all-encompassing presence, and making itself ever more attractive as a
target for marketers, data thieves, and government snoops. 'Any
sufficiently advanced search, communications, and sensing infrastructure
is indistinguishable from Big Brother,' the column argues."
"The East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative started charging cellular prices for home DSL internet service
starting on January 1st, 2014. A 5GB plan costs $24.95 a month while a
25 GB plan will run $99.95 per month. 100 GB is the most data you can
get in a package for $299.95 per month. Each additional GB is $5. They
argue that the price increase is justified because their costs have
increased by 900% since 2009. About half of their customers use less
than 5 GB a month while their largest users use around 100 GB a month.
They argue that the switch to measured internet will appropriately place
the cost on their heaviest users. With the landmark Net Neutrality
ruling this week will larger providers try to move to similar price
models?"
What the internet will eventually look like...
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