How Technology Went from Freedom Advocates to Deep State Tools
Apple went from "think different" to "think like Orwell told you to"; then Twitter, Google, Facebook doubled down on the moral evil.
See famed full one minute Apple “1984” commercial here.
I am the creator of CompTIA’s Server+ certification, which went live 2001. When I left in 2001 it was formally required by HP, one of four certifications formally required internally by Intel, required by Novell, formally part of the Microsoft MCSE progamme, recommended by IBM, required by Adaptec, etc. I am also a former Novell CNE and CNI, and have taught applications since the mid-80s. You might say I have a modicum of experience…. I go all the way back to WordPerfect, Lotus 123, dBase II, III and IV, and was around when Microsoft first started with MS-DOS. I also taught the Macintosh system. I was told by others (I can’t say personally myself) that Gates stole the intellectual property, but at least he was accused of being anti-competitive (can you say sleaze-ball?) The competitor, CP/M just disappeared. OK, I thought, that’s just business, so I went about my work and forgot it.
Next, I start training a graphical user interface for Northern Telecom and Bell Northern Research, similar to the Mac GUI (graphical user interface), called GEM desktop (I think it was by Digital Research). Here’s the thing, and I can’t underscore this enough: GEM Desktop was out a year or two prior the Windows GUI, v. 3. ***WHY*** didn’t the GEM Desktop GUI take over the world? Suddenly, when Windows 3 comes out – which was the freaking SAME function as GEM – everyone was all excited.
OK, I thought, just marketing. Let’s move on.
Then, suddenly, Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect, which has most of the market, disappear. This means companies had to completely retrain their office staff – a MASSIVE amount of work and cost. Why would they do that??? Ashton-Tate’s dBase III and IV similarly disappeared. OK, I thought, Gates is a marketing juggernaut, and I left it at that.
Next, we go to the Novell NOS. As noted, I am a Netware Engineer, and at the time, one of only about 1,000 CNI’s in the world (instructor). Novell owned the networking world. Interestingly, Deep Stater Eric Schmidt took it over and ran it into the ground. As many of you know, Schmidt is one of the kingpins in the WEF tyranny; but at the same time, early/mid 90s, Windows NT comes out. Suddenly, everyone is rushing to adopt it. Well… not everyone. The technical guys thought it was a joke, security horrible, etc. But the C-suite wanted it, so slowly everyone yanked out their NOSs (network operating system). I can’t tell you how MUCH effort this took – time, training, money, etc.
I recall when Facebook first started, there was MySpace who I think was there first. Suddenly, they disappeared… just like all the Microsoft competitors. And same thing with this disgusting, politically correct Linked In. You MUST be on it for a job, just as you MUST be on Farcebook for social media. Linked In was particularly exposed in the court case by the weaponized justice system in the E. Jean Carroll case. Turns out the LinkedIn co-founder funded (see also here) the witch hunt case. Of course, just like Sam Bankman Fried, who apparently laundered Ukraine money back to the left, the vile Linked In founder, who helped rehab convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's image and visited his island, heavily assisted California Democrat Will Rollins. See also the NY Post’s LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman visited Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, planned to visit NYC mansion. And let’s not get started on Twitter, which got outed for its woke McCarthyism when Musk took over. .
Oh yes, “First, Let’s Only Do Evil” Google. You may recall back in the 9600 baud dial up days there was Alta Vista, Lycos, etc. etc. Suddenly, it was all Google; even the search verb was “go google” something (sorry, I always say web search). And of course famed finance writer Bill Bonner wrote for years about Amazon being the river of no (financial) returns. But why not? If you have some entities behind the scenes supporting you while you run red ink, and then push you over the goal line with a monopoly, what’s the problem - at least if you are Jeff Bezos. I also have spent a career working with electronic medical records, and was suprised to see how Epic came out of nowhere and took over the field. Was it superior? That could never really be proved one way or the other. But I do know, just like Microsoft, just like Google, just like Facebook, it came out of nowhere and suddenly took over the world. Only later did I learn that Epic (think MyChart), based in Verona, WI. was a big Obama supporter. There are no conspiracy theories; but there are also no coincidences. .
So, if you read this far, what’s the point? Simple. These guys were probably anointed by the Deep State years ago. If you read the personal lives of these people, you understand they are NOT for liberty, freedom, etc. Think Bill Gates at Epstein Island; or the UK Daily Mail’s writing about Schmidt’s “Eric Schmidt's 'open marriage' and his string of exotic relationships, and who has embarked on a sting of affairs with younger women.” Not my opinion - I am just citing the UK’s Daily Mail, among other stories. Rather, the disgusting Gates, Schmidt, Zuckerberg and his fenced mansion with a mile long wall on Kauai are all part of the technocracy that Patrick Wood exposes here.
In my opinion, these guys were APPOINTED long ago, due their, ummm… moral “flexibility,” by the powers that be. They must be resisted with ALL we have in us, or we will return to a new Dark Age.
And how do we resist? By peacefully and always within the law communicating with others. Martin Luther King’s approach is ours, and it is simple: Communicate with others, remaining with all legal constraints, and 100% peacefully.
Excellent post. I exposed some of the ways in which the oligarchs are engaging in mind control and social engineering programs in a previous article I will link below: https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/self-education-vs-behavior-modification
The article focuses on exposing the corruption and weaponization of Wikipedia, Google, Facebook, Youtube and other platforms for censorship of dissident voices, the suppression of science and information that threatens the status quo and for pushing corporate propaganda into the public consciousness.
There are open source projects that are meant to address the centralization of the web, but as far as I can tell, they either a) tend to become or b) can become or c) are from the start, cults. As cults they become liable to be used or coopted by the same corporations they allegedly aimed to undermine.
The more they try to avoid argument and hide disagreement to get things done, the faster they become cults. When they are used by these corporations they end up making things worse for citizens and consumers.