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Social networking toys? What, you mean smartphones, integrated GPS, augmented reality, robotics, pervasive communications networks. None of these advances str
by DannoHung 17y ago
Social networking toys? What, you mean smartphones, integrated GPS, augmented reality, robotics, pervasive communications networks. None of these advances strike you as important and potentially disruptive?
- run4yourlives 17y agoRelative though. There's cell phone to iphone levels of disruption to the norm, and then there is kitchen sink to washing machine levels of disruption. If you look at tech, a comparable time period to the 20's would be the late 80's early 90's, where we went from basically the industrial age to the information age in a matter of years. What's happening now is nowhere close to the same scale.
- mixmax 17y agoWhat's happening now is the commoditization of the tech that started gaining traction in the early 90's. Speaking from a macroeconomic standpoint this is where all the fun is.
- run4yourlives 17y agoDepends on how you define fun, and where you sit. All the "fun" stuff from the 80's and 90's has turned into companies like Apple, Microsoft, Nokia and Motorola. Their founders have been living what I'm sure they would consider "fun" lives for quite a while. :-)
- mixmax 17y agoWhat I meant by fun was higher productivity, better utilisation of resources, rise in GDP based on innovation and that sort of stuff. What is fun to one is, well something else, to another. :-)
- bsaunder 17y agoIt's not just the commoditization, but our efficiency. Searching for information is oodles easier (to use a technical term ;) than it has been (say pre-google/wikipedia). Furthermore, on-line communities like HN filter up all of the more interesting new pieces of information resulting in much quicker dissemination of good ideas.