By Christian Meier (Die Welt)
It will probably never be possible to pinpoint exactly when Silicon Valley has given up contributing to a better world in favor of conquering and dominating global markets.
For the German developers of the Terra Vision program, which as early as the mid-1990s made it possible to observe the world on a computer, to zoom in on streets and houses using satellite images of the whole world, it is probably by a hot evening in the United States that utopia is dead, even though they were unaware of it at the time.
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They had presented their project to Silicon Graphics, a former manufacturer of high performance computers, on which graphics applications like theirs performed particularly well.
One of the heroes of society, who for the founders embodied the free Internet, and all the hopes and possibilities that came with it, had taken them to a hippie festival in the middle of the desert.
This hero
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