Suddenly it’s 1960.

Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Google have replaced ABC, NBC, PBS and CBS.

Your “personal computer internet appliance” is a black-box running rented software, just like in the ‘dumb-terminal time-sharing’ era.

When the dust settles, it’ll be just like Ma Bell in 1975: There will be the “Internet Company” just like there was the Phone Company, with a probable ‘bonus’ of an extra “National Internet Corporation” modeled on the BBC.

Storage has never been cheaper.

There’s going to be a seppuku session in somebody’s IT department.

Off to the wrecking-yard and auto-parts house to get more spares for my '99…

If you’re going to monitor me like an airline pilot, you can pay me like one.