This was my original message on February 22. Begin forwarded message:
> From: Pamela McCorduck <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] WhatsApp ... Death of SMS? > Date: February 22, 2014 at 5:14:43 PM EST > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > > The Internet was conceived and first implemented by a small group of > government and university researchers: J. C. R. Licklider, Bob Kahn, Vint > Cert, and several other pioneers. (So when I hear Silly Valley Libertarians > go on and on, the best I can do is laugh.) > > My question to this august group is: now that the momentum for innovation has > moved to the private sector, are we going to see nothing but these trivial, > mostly copycat apps that make your eyes glaze over? Is the private sector > capable of genuine innovation? > > Pamela > > > > > >
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