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While there are many useless critics, i wonder - was it really that hard to imagine Facebook("the identity layer of the web"),Reddit("democratic news"),The int
by pinkyand 12y ago
While there are many useless critics, i wonder - was it really that hard to imagine Facebook("the identity layer of the web"),Reddit("democratic news"),The internet("duh") or smartphones("The versatility of computing, everywhere") becoming valuable under the condition that everybody uses them ? Doesn't seem so.
But there are many apps, that even under that condition, that it would be hard to imagine any unique value over what we have today, And do warrant criticism .
- scott_s 12y agoI think you're suffering from hindsight bias. Less than two years ago, I was still explaining to people that the emergence of online social networks is a Big Deal.
- pinkyand 12y agoThis is not hindsight. At the beginning of those products, at least some people described it that way.
- scott_s 12y agoBased on the content of the article, and you language you used, I assumed you were wondering if it really was hard for most people to imagine the impact of things like Facebook, Reddit, smartphones and the internet. Not that there was a small number of people who did, but most people. And for all of those technologies, I think the answer is, yes, it was hard for most people.
- pinkyand 12y agoWhen reading the article , i was thinking more about the criticisms we hear at hacker news. People here are not "most people" and can have vision, but still there's a lot of criticisms about useless apps. But maybe i read the article wrong.