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Why do I believe it will? Seems like a pretty extraordinary claim. There are plenty of other tech businesses that saw meteoritic growth, and they didn't all pet
by swombat 13y ago
Why do I believe it will? Seems like a pretty extraordinary claim. There are plenty of other tech businesses that saw meteoritic growth, and they didn't all peter out like diseases.
Many forces that are at play with diseases (immunity for one) are absent with tech products, and a big one from tech products (the fact that the tech product is built by a company filled with intelligent people who want it to succeed) is absent from diseases.
Infectious diseases seems like a pretty tenuous analogy for a 10-year old tech business with thousands of employees.
- md224 13y agoAs someone partial to the concept of memetics and Universal Darwinism, I happen to like when biological/Darwinian principles are applied to higher-level concepts. That being said, there may be ways to differ with the article's analysis even within the biological analogy: it's possible that Facebook and its users have a symbiotic relationship (social features in exchange for traffic/attention/ad impressions) in which case the user base may continue to stay with the site until an even more advantageous website comes along.