I don’t necessarily disagree, but I will note that there are a lot of alternatives to many of Google’s tools. Some are better, some are nearly as good, some are much worse, but I feel like you could get a long way to systems that help humans work together with all of the free and open source replacements that are out there.
In other words, I’m not so sure that Google and other Google-esque companies are a necessary component of tools to help us work together.
I don’t necessarily disagree, but I will note that there are a lot of alternatives to many of Google’s tools. Some are better, some are nearly as good, some are much worse, but I feel like you could get a long way to systems that help humans work together with all of the free and open source replacements that are out there.
In other words, I’m not so sure that Google and other Google-esque companies are a necessary component of tools to help us work together.