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A few non sequiturs: 1) 'Futurism' is the early twentieth century philosophy created by Marinetti, launched with this enchanting essay: http://www.english.upen

A few non sequiturs: 1) 'Futurism' is the early twentieth century philosophy created by Marinetti, launched with this enchanting essay: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jenglish/English104/marinetti.html http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jenglish/English104/marinetti.... 2) "Instagram began life as a Yelp-style app called Burbn, with photos an afterthought (photos on your phone, is that a thing?)." Is this somehow implying that Instagram invented phones on your camera, or indeed anything at all? This seems a common sort of confusion, along the same category as believing Apple invented smart phones, Google invented search engines or Facebook invented social networking, rather than popularizing a particular form of a preexisting technology.

detaro 11y ago
re 2) I'd read it as that the makers of Instagram initially didn't believe in people actually using cameras in their phones, so the opposite of your interpretation. How many people did have camera feature-phones/early smartphones and did really use the camera? Granted, I was still in high-school, but tons of my peers had phones with cameras, but they were only used very seldomly and not in any phone-specific way (take picture with phone if you didn't have a digital camera with you, send to computer, treat as if it came of a crappy digital camera)
- astazangasta 11y ago
  The innovation that allowed this was really faster wireless networks with internet. My first cell (2005) was a feature phone, had a camera, I used it, but transferring it over the network was slow and painful, so sharing of any kind was impossible. Once it was, it of course required no great leap of imagination to start moving things to the cloud.
  - TorKlingberg 11y ago
    Also phones with WiFi, and everyone having WiFi in their home.
mrec 11y ago
If you haven't already read it, G.K. Chesterton's response[1] to the original Futurist manifesto is an absolute joy. I completely lose it every time I get to his Futurist drinking song. [1] http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/20439/ http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/20439/

detaro 11y ago

re 2) I'd read it as that the makers of Instagram initially didn't believe in people actually using cameras in their phones, so the opposite of your interpretation. How many people did have camera feature-phones/early smartphones and did really use the camera? Granted, I was still in high-school, but tons of my peers had phones with cameras, but they were only used very seldomly and not in any phone-specific way (take picture with phone if you didn't have a digital camera with you, send to computer, treat as if it came of a crappy digital camera)

astazangasta 11y ago
The innovation that allowed this was really faster wireless networks with internet. My first cell (2005) was a feature phone, had a camera, I used it, but transferring it over the network was slow and painful, so sharing of any kind was impossible. Once it was, it of course required no great leap of imagination to start moving things to the cloud.
- TorKlingberg 11y ago
  Also phones with WiFi, and everyone having WiFi in their home.

mrec 11y ago

If you haven't already read it, G.K. Chesterton's response[1] to the original Futurist manifesto is an absolute joy. I completely lose it every time I get to his Futurist drinking song. [1] http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/20439/ http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/20439/