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> It's a solution in search of a problem, like so much good, early technology. Care to elaborate and share examples of other "good, earl technology"? Typically
by mbesto 9y ago
> It's a solution in search of a problem, like so much good, early technology.
Care to elaborate and share examples of other "good, earl technology"? Typically when I hear "solution in search of a problem", I start thinking "this is going nowhere".
- pfarrell 9y agoGoogle Wave comes to mind. Great tech, but marketed to the wrong group (developers) and didn't solve any problems I had at the time.
- AndrewKemendo 9y agoPretty much any technology you use now was a solution in need of a problem. PDAs and Touchscreen tablets are the most fitting examples.
- mbesto 9y agoSorry, maybe I didn't get your original point - I thought you were insinuating that ICO was a technology in search a problem and that all super successful (i.e. good) technologies starts this way (which I would disagree).
- AndrewKemendo 9y agoI thought you were insinuating that ICO was a technology in search a problem and that all super successful technologies starts this way. Not insinuating, that's my claim - nearly every big technology was too early (eg. a solution looking for a problem - whether in form or scale) before it blew up years or decades later. I don't think that's controversial. It's also true that a lot of trash that never makes it are also solutions in search of problems.
- mbesto 9y agoI think you're confusing their adoption curve with a problem they solve. For example - PDA's certainly solved a problem (having a mobile/digital calendar), they just didn't solve enough problems when they were introduced.
- darkerside 9y agoThe entire Internet
- genon 9y agoI don't know if this just sounded like a zinger to you when you wrote it, but "the Internet" is a prime example of anything but a solution in search of a problem.
- coderzach 9y agoWhat big problem did the early internet solve? Sending messages between universities? Why not just use a phone?
- genon 9y agoARPANET/the Internet was developed to facilitate communication, remote access and data sharing between different computer systems. Are you sticking with "Why not just use a phone?".
- darkerside 9y ago20+ years ago the majority of the world had little to no understanding of the internet. People with technical backgrounds may have had theoretical ideas about how connecting the world online would radically change it. But it was exactly a "solution in search of a problem" in the same vein as decentralized computing through blockchain technology is today. A world where the digital world was as critical as the real one seemed ridiculous on its face back then.