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Big Tech companies are finally getting the names we thought dystopian megacorps would have (sopuli.xyz)

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Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren't straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The meta rebranding made my skin craw. The X rebranding is dumb on Elon Musk's part. However you make a good point.

I believe Apple got its name from the biblical term of the forbidden fruit. Microsoft has a megacorp sounding name. Will Amazon rename itself to something dystopian?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

AFAIK Microsoft came from the Neuromancer novel. A microsoft is a tool in the book.

Could be wrong though, but I feel Ike that book was written before Microsoft was a company.