In short, software is eating the world. — Marc Andreessen, 2011 I. If a technology’s popularity grows far enough, it will disintegrate Consider three stages of technology adoption. First, it is available only to an elite: “The newspaper reports that the governor used one of Mr. Bell’s telephone devices to converse with his counterpart on the…
Green Hills
“Hey! Dad! When does summer start?” An easy one, but he flummoxed me. There were at least three good answers: His summer begins at the close of school, that year noon on June 10th. The culture around him moves towards barbeques and blockbuster movies around the last Monday in May, a holiday. Astronomical summer is…
Care signal
Horace Dediu recently devoted much of two podcasts1 to the word “luxury” and to a gap he identified between the word’s connotations and the underlying phenomenon it labels. He asserts: We cannot use the word “luxury”. It is obsolete.2 because the current implications mislead us so badly. He concludes the podcasts without settling on a…