| The plan is clear, and has been for two decades. MicroSoft, et al, has been heading in the direction of "Software as a Service"(SAAS) for some time now. The intent is that we will all 'subscribe' to Windows, (basic cable), MSOffice, SharePoint, etc...(the "Premium" channels). This ensures M$ a 'renewable revenue stream', while at the same time giving them all the advantages of a Public Utility with none of the obligations.
The companies like Comcast (the very business model upon which Gates' vision rests) are bound and determined to get their piece of that pie. If Gates' can charge by the month, then, so the reasoning goes, there's no reason that the DELIVERY VENDORS can't charge "by the pound"...
Of course, as both of these greedmeisters are rubbing their grimy hands together in glee, the government will start yammering more and more about missing out on THEIR piece of the pie, and finally push through the dreated internet taxes that have thus far been kept at bay, ostensibly out of a fear it would curb the "development of the internet".
If the internet wasn't so predominantly occupied by sheeple, they'd all raise up on their hind legs and make a ruckus about this blatant hijacking of a technology that ONCE held out the potential of changing MORE than just the business/geo/political world.
But they ARE sheeple, hegemonic humans who couldn't act in their own best COLLECTIVE interests if their lives depended on it...and the greedmeisters know this all too well. |
