Google Wave was nothing if not ambitious. Information services don’t always change the world. It was a watershed moment for Google and an early acknowledgment that better Gave up the ghost in January 2010, removing the censorship blocks mandated by the Chinese government and getting blocked by party censors almost immediately. After a targeted cyberattack and mounting criticism from human rights groups, Google finally The Great Firewall stayed up, and while Google’s moral compromises got more painful, China didn’t get any more open in response. Google has been operating in China since 2000, making significant censorshipĬoncessions to the government, but thinking that a searchable internet would force China to open up in the years that followed. But that queasy tango was happening for a long time before Apple opened up shop in Beijing. New users and the threat of omnipresent surveillance and censorship. US tech companies have had a hard time dealing with China lately, caught between the draw of a billion If you want to understand how we got here, these moments are a good place to start. We talk a lot about the tech world growing up, but this is how it happened - brick by brick, one moment at a time. Always political, technology became partisan and started to splinter. The cult of the founder withered, while platforms sank into an endless war between the moderators and the moderated. Threatened by piracy, content companies traded hard copy sales for monthly streaming charges. Social networks consolidated and expanded globally, bringing new anxieties over their political power. Taking the long view, the individual stories of the past 10 years tend to blur into a few big trends. Tinder, Twitch, and TikTok simply didn’t exist. Uber hadn’t reached an app store yet, and Spotify hadn’t reached the US. Facebook was still an upstart, having just recently clawed its way to profitability.
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