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In Clay Shirky’s response to R.U. Sirius’ “Is The Net Good For Writers?” (10 Zen Monkeys: 5 October 2007), he takes on the persona of someone talking about what new changes are coming with the Gutenberg movable type press. At one point, he says, “Such a change would also create enormous economic hardship for anyone [...]
Posted on April 19th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Douglas Rushkoff’s response to R.U. Sirius’ “Is The Net Good For Writers?” (10 Zen Monkeys: 5 October 2007):
But I think many writers - even good ones - will have to accept the fact that books can be loss-leaders or break-even propositions in a highly mediated world where showing up in person generates the most [...]
Posted on April 19th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Peter Seebach’s Standards and specs: Not by UNIX alone (IBM developerWorks: 8 March 2006):
In the past 20 years, developers for “the same” desktop platform (”whatever Microsoft ships”) have been told that the API to target is (in this order):
* DOS
* Win16
* OS/2
* Win32
* WinNT
* WinXP
* and most recently .NET.
Of course, that list is from [...]
Posted on June 16th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Brian Hayes’ “The Post-OOP Paradigm“:
The architects of the earliest computer systems gave little thought to software. (The very word was still a decade in the future.) Building the machine itself was the serious intellectual challenge; converting mathematical formulas into program statements looked like a routine clerical task. The awful truth came out soon [...]
Posted on April 4th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Joel Kurtzman, Interview with Gary Hamel, Strategy & Business (4th Qtr 1997):
One of the most interesting cases of all is CNN, which “saw at least three things that had already changed in our world that others had not yet put together”: technology changes produced small satellite uplinks that made it possible to report from [...]
Posted on November 14th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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From Robert Hertzberg’s “The Coming Shakeout” in WebWeek (3 February 1997):
… the Internet [will] change things less in the near term than is generally assumed, but far more over the long term than anyone can imagine.
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