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> If you happen to be in college during a technological revolution, you won the lottery and should start a company https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLCL6OYbSTw

• beamatronic 8y ago
  Now you tell me. My conceptual problem was back then I couldn’t imagine people paying a monthly fee to access the Internet. Apparently Americans have A LOT of disposable income.
  • sharemywin 8y ago
    If there is one thing I've learned it's never under estimate how frivolous people are with their money.
    • noonespecial 8y ago
      Its a little deeper than that: Never underestimate how willing other people are to spend money on things that you consider frivolous. The trap is to accidentally consider your values as universals. You haven't known obsession until you've hung out with some model railroad guys.
• rch 8y ago
  I'd tweak that heuristic to say that you'll be entered into a lottery regardless, and as such it makes sense to figure out which revolution you're in the midst of. In the 1960's you probably could have flipped a coin between tech and advertising.
  • samsonradu 8y ago
    I would also add that it's not easy to tell which revolution you're in the midst of (if any). VR technology was also thought to be a revolution a decade back and it hasn't really delivered. Or take crypto for instance. Is it a financial revolution that will build a mega-corp like Amazon or Google in the upcoming decades or will it slowly fade away.