i've been busy.
I attempted to explain the simplest truth of modern technology to my father recently. Here goes,
The easiest way to change the world is to take something people like to do, and remove either the time-, or space-bias from that activity.
In other words, take something static in time or location, and make it movable in one or more ways.
This isn't necessarily huge innovation, but it accounts for most of the new technology that people obsess over.
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For Example?
A few short examples:
cellular phone: phone without a location bias. calling is now about reaching an individual, rather than a location / dwelling.
mp3 player: music collection without a space bias. instead of a music collection being held to a computer, or cd collection, or records, it's insanely portable, with insane storage.
online gambling: time and space bias removed from playing poker. you don't need a place to meet, or even need to keep normal human hours to gamble anymore.
tivo/downloadable tv content: you watch tv on your time, rather than on the schedule the network sets. in other words, people watching shows because they want to watch them, not because 'this is what's on'.
shall i go on?
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