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I 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 De
by scott_s 12y ago
I 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.