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verables  ·  4374 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Future Is Now: What We Imagined for 2013 — 10 Years Ago

I see that all as gradual changes, even the Internet took a couple years to really take hold. The day we saw the iPhone it instantly made all UI obsolete. I'm not even a big fan of Apple, but I just find how extreme and fast it changed everything to be really amazing.





steve  ·  4373 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I wonder also if the acceleration of acceleration is happening. It took, what... 15-20 years for home computers to be adopted in the mainstream? and maybe 5-10 for the internet, and then 1-2 for the iPhone? does that make sense? I'm just musing here... I could just be off my rocker.

verables  ·  4373 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah I definitely think that is part of it, but also the iPhone solved a problem so perfectly that you could tell it was the way to go. You're right though, I don't think it'll take 20 years (or even 10) for the next big thing to change the world.