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Facebook is evil. Google is evil. The internet is evil. And here is why. I have a rule I go by that if something comes in threes in a short period of time it must mean something.  I’ve suddenly come smack up against the writings of Jaron Lanier, an iconoclastic thinker whose subject is this. …

It’s in vogue these days after Kris Graft eloquently defended the various malignancies of Activision/Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick to support the man, claiming he does all he does as an effective executive officer and not as an imp of Satan himself. Of course, then Kotick goes and does something like giving a speech to the …

In a recent posting, I expressed curiosity about what makes a game a sure fire winner. Statistically, only two percent of games actually return a profit to their developers, so I asked the question, “Why do some games, like Grand Theft Auto, Halo, Max Payne and others become such winners in the marketplace?” One of …