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BitTorrent fascinates me because it was a thought problem. The technology to support BitTorrent had been in place for years--the requisite bandwidth, processin
by matthew-wegner 15y ago
BitTorrent fascinates me because it was a thought problem. The technology to support BitTorrent had been in place for years--the requisite bandwidth, processing power, and storage space--but nobody had conceived of a clear-enough implementation to execute the high concept of piecemeal transmission before Bram.
Most unsolved problems today are probably thought problems, not technical problems (excepting battery life and blanketed super-fast wireless).
- InclinedPlane 15y agoIt's interesting to think about the sorts of technologies that are more about knowledge than supporting infrastructure. A perfect example would be the telegraph, which was only developed about a century ago but could have easily been built in cruder forms going back 2 or 3 thousand years. It makes one wonder what sort of fundamental innovations will be discovered in the future and what sorts of things we are missing out on today merely out of ignorance.