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> Three of the largest, most influential and defining technology companies of our lifetime (Google, Facebook, Twitter)

That's so funny it hurts. If Google, Facebook and Twitter would all disappear tomorrow the world would continue to revolve and productivity in general would likely be up.

Techology companies that defined our lifetime exist (Intel, Microsoft, Apple, Sony, Samsung, etc) but are of a completely different kind. Google has the potential to become such a company, facebook and twitter not so much.



If Google, Facebook and Twitter would all disappear tomorrow the world would continue to revolve and productivity in general would likely be up.

Google is really a useful tool and productivity would probably drop if it disappeared. How many technical answers did I get from Google? A lot!

I agree about Facebook and Twitter however, it wouldn't surprise me that both company get myspaced in the next 10 years.


Google is the best search engine, that I am aware of, but it's not the only one.

I suspect if google disappeared I could make do with others (Bing, yahoo, DuckDuckGo, ...).

The biggest deal for me would be my @gmail.com account. So much of my online identity and profiles are connected to it.




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