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So what. No one's getting new wealth from washing machines. We care about the Internet because we see it as a means of gaining financial security.
by bsenftner 14y ago
So what.
No one's getting new wealth from washing machines.
We care about the Internet because we see it as a means of gaining financial security.
- mkr-hn 14y agoThat's what the washing machine helped do for half the population.
- danso 14y ago...I know this is HN, but there are other takeaways from this kind of essay than: "Well, let's make a business out of washing machines" or "How do we make a better washing machine?" 1. Certain inventions become ubiquitous because they fill an important, if pedestrian need. So sometimes it's worth asking, "Why do we care about X?", not just, "How do we make money from it?" In fact, I think asking why the Internet is important enough to make a viable business out of is probably one of the first questions a startup should ask in the planning stages, rather than just, "This will be successful because it's on the Internet and more and more people are also on the Internet" 2. Revolutionary inventions/reforms outside of your own domain may create new supply-and-demand forces within your domain.