As the stock market plunges you might lose sight of the technical transitions happening, technology companies buying other companies as Microsoft bought LinkedIn and GitHub, and generally lose yourself in stock transactions. But there are much more wonderful things happening with tech
The fundamental question of the web is—what is its purpose? To be an almost totally commercial surveillance apparatus—or to follow what Tim Berners-Lee and many academics thought that it is to be, a decidedly un-Facebook-like tool used primarily for education. In that vein, if you eve