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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Susan Crawford talked about how phone companies were optimized for billing, and this morning, while waiting for the kiddo to be returned to us from a medical procedure[1], I was thinking about how much of the modern world seems optimized for billing, and I'm wondering how much of that has been facilitated by availability of cheap communications and computers[2].
[1] No worries. Everything went well, and they are well.
[2] Cheap in the ignoring externalities sense of cheap.