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>Hopefully getting the Internet in the hands of many non-technical people with Smartphones and tablets will get us to another Era of Innovation... This seems t
by greatdipper 10y ago
>Hopefully getting the Internet in the hands of many non-technical people with Smartphones and tablets will get us to another Era of Innovation...
This seems to be a fallacy. Give internet to 10 random people and 9 of them will use it for Porn and Social media. You know, instant gratification stuff.
The one guy who uses it to "expand their horizons" will find himself too alone and powerless in a culture that has gone south by the the aforementioned 9 people who wouldn't take their heads up from the social media in their mobile phones....
- k__ 10y agoWell, but if one of 1000000 people does something on the scale of google, facebook or wikipedia, this would be enough. With the internet, ideas scale much better. Before smartphones, we nerdy white males made stuff. Now the rest of the world can take over :)
- greatdipper 10y agoWell, is it possible that problems solved by those things were not the real bottlenecks of real innovation. But they took away something that had brought about innovation in the past and had a very good chance of brining it in the future....idle human thought.