2013: A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year for the Tech Industry (Fantastic Read!)

[KoKo]

(The Atlantic makes it hard to give more than a brief snip...but, this article is worth going to the link re: economic, political, investing, workers rights, spying and future of Silicon Valley)
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2013: A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year for the Tech Industry
by Christopher Mims

All in, 2013 was an embarrassment for the entire tech industry and the engine that powers it—Silicon Valley. Innovation was replaced by financial engineering, mergers and acquisitions, and evasion of regulations. Not a single breakthrough product was unveiled—and for reasons outlined below, Google Glass doesn’t count.If it’s in the nature of progress to move in leaps, there are necessarily lulls in between. Here are all the reasons 2013 was a great big dud for technology as a whole:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/2013-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-year-for-the-tech-industry/282656/

[Demeter]

1. Yes, well Pride Goeth before a Fall

and there's no bigger puffed up BS than Silicon Valley's Libertarian Crony Capitalists. Except the BOG, perhaps.