And then I’ve also seen it as a really interesting union organizing space for workers who are trying to collaborate on what they want and what they want from their company. It was a really powerful tool at the time. There were a lot of resource documents and kind of calls to action and some other kind of-I just saw Google docs being used in innovative ways to get the word out in a kind of a time of crisis, when information was changing, where the owners could send out this document and update it in real time, educate people based on, you know, new cases that they were looking at and things to be aware of. I saw a lot of that after the Black Lives Matter protests last summer in response to the killing of George Floyd. You can make a Google doc that is updated in real time and share it with the world. There’s also a lot of like, mass broadcasting that happens on Google docs for political purposes or other sort of organizing purposes. Or if they’re being watched, they would write in the Google doc and then delete it in real time, and just use it as kind of like a shared notepad. There was a fascinating piece in The Atlantic a few years ago about how kids in schools are using the chat functions on Google docs to kind of essentially pass notes without, you know, folding up a Post-It and throwing it across the room. First, it’s kind of a social media for these kids that are going to school using these products. Scott Nover: I think there’s a few really interesting use cases. But they effectively changed how we work and collaborate in real time. So it’s hard to exactly know what Google’s intention was, you know, other than really keeping everyone using Google products and building a new line of revenue. And Google docs really streamlined that process. You would write your file, and you would save it, and you would hope that it actually saved, and you would send it over to the next person, maybe they would send it back with some changes. Before Google docs, you couldn’t really collaborate in a meaningful way on a word processing document or spreadsheet. I think the interactivity is behind all of it.
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