Five Things Tech: Silicon Valley, Forgotten Internet, Publishers, ID Verification, WIFI on Trains

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Hello again, and welcome back to Five Things Tech!

This week’s edition of Five Things Tech is a bit of a wayback machine. First we’ll look at Silicon Valley and the way its tech industry has defined our future in the last decades. Also, let’s figure out what’s to come. I miss the good old internet of yore and I have great memories of spending hours upon hours in the computer lab at UC Berkeley “surfing the internet” as people said back then. It was so awesome! Publishers didn’t get the internet back then and they still don’t. Meanwhile lawmakers still try to get rid of anonymity online and think this will make everything better, but instead it won’t improve anything really. Talking about improvements: we need better WIFI on trains.

And no, I won’t do WIFI at ships next, don’t worry. I know that after WIFI on planes and now WIFI on trains it seems to be quite obsessive, but it is an important subject for travelers. And for me. And the WIFI I had on a cruiseship 15 years ago (or so) was so bad, I won’t even discuss it.

Enjoy!