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I think you're missing the joke. Most of these apps are some nth-derivative of those industries. Instead of "make me dinner" it's "an app to aggregate apps that
by w3pm 14y ago
I think you're missing the joke. Most of these apps are some nth-derivative of those industries. Instead of "make me dinner" it's "an app to aggregate apps that help me find someone to make me dinner, plus social networking." At some point the value-add is so small it's truly a "first-world problem."
- Rinum 14y agoHe definitely got the joke. The point is that you could apply this to anything. Most of what we have now went through some kind of value-add process. Isn't that how evolution works? That smallest "value-add" could make room for bigger change later.
- RegEx 14y agoYou're not seriously comparing the usefulness of automobiles to Instagram, are you?
- Rinum 14y agoI am not. It's more like comparing the second iteration of the windshield wiper to Instagram.
- saraid216 14y agoGilette Razor. NOW WITH SIX BLADES.
- tripzilch 14y agoThe Gilette Singularity The interesting curve is the hyperbolic one, for two reasons: One, it matches the real-world data. And two, it goes to infinity in 2015. And how are you going to get an asymptotically-accelerating number of blades onto a razor? Why, you’d need godlike super-technology to do that. http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2006/06/the_gillette_si.php http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2006/06/the_gi...
- greggman 14y agoI got the joke. I found it funny. I also found it thought provoking to examine how spoiled I am as a first world person. But that also got me thinking that to some level even basics are first world. Movies: If your starving in some 3rd world country I doubt you care about when the next Hobbit comes out Games: you'd have to be able to afford a game console before you care about games. Cars: I lived in a 1st world city for 7 years where most people don't own a car which point out how much they are not really needed