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Comment by ktRolster | Hacker News Reader

  > An internet should have made traditional journals
  > obsolete. It shouldn't be taking this long.

The futurists failed to see the negative value points of advertising, and how it drags everything down into a pit where "you won't believe what happens next."

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For every starry-eyed and future creating technologist, who really does see the best-case scenario for what current and near-future technologies can accomplish, they need to always be shadowed by a team of altruistic business/PR/advertising-savvy advocates who can remind them how the worst among us are going to screw it all up so that our hero-geniuses can bake safeguards into the systems they create from the onset.

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