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It's hard to imagine that newspapers were once that rich.


Is it? Being society's primary information nexus is pretty damn profitable; just ask Google.


Well yeah, it makes sense when you work it out; every fact makes sense once you work it out. And there's a certain pleasing symmetry in that control over information, and the business model of attaching advertising to that information, has made the Google execs rich enough to invest in mining asteroids. I was just reflecting on how big a change it was.




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