Tech Moves @ Warp Speed
There was a time in the technology industry, not very far back, when companies dominated for long periods, often decades. Like IBM. Or Microsoft. Then the Internet arrived, with its “power vested in me by nobody in particular” philosophy, as stated by Marc Andreesen, founder of Netscape! And the rules of the game changed forever. Neil Gaiman described it as follows: “The rules, the assumptions, the now-we're supposed to's of how you get your work seen, and what you do then, are breaking down…The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are. So make up your own rules.” As Joshua Topolsky wrote , today, even 6 years feels like an eternity in technology: “Only six years ago, the vast majority of people had no idea that a phone could do anything other than make a phone call. The concept of "apps" did not exist at all. The idea of using a phone as a GPS unit or a camera was laughable. Twitter and Facebook were nascent distractions. Netflix...