
And of course he will be off to his invasion of digital Russia to destroy Emperor Page and Brin…

And actually, he might get by with a little help from his friends. Well, as bad comes to worse, Steve Ballmer now wants to conquer Yahoo! and reduce the number of titans to two. You need connections and loads of money to make it in the world of the three titans. If you look at the success story of startups that made it ( like Youtube for instance), you’ll realize that the dream of the cool website, that simply offers good information while finding users and making money, is a Fata Morgana that drives thousands of young enthusiasts into death of thirst. Nowadays, building up a web service and making money outside the Territory of the Three Web Caesars is considerably more difficult than just starting a “real” shop. Truth is, the World Wide Web is in the hands of a few Emperors-namely Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft-that split the territory amongst themselves quite some time ago. Ironically, people still believe that the Internet belongs to them, some journalists behind the times even complain about “the mob reigning the web.” Remember, after the French got rid of their sleepy King Louis XVI, they installed the radical Robespierre, followed by the brutal tyrant Napoleon Bonaparte I.

How did we get into this mess? Just a Little Bit of History Repeating “Fast-food data junkies,” that’s what we are.
#Beebeep not finding somebody on the same internet free

We read and write more today than we used to. To free us from propaganda, to free us from mindless TV, to free us from advertisement torture, and to enrich us by letting machines do all the boring work so we’d have more free time. The IT-Revolution promised to free and enrich us.
