“Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes.”
- Jason Epstein
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Source:
Books: Onward to the Digital Revolution
FEBRUARY 10, 2011
Jason Epstein
Review of Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century by John B. Thompson
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/feb/10/books-onward-digital-revolution/
Category: Technology
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And the MSM did not invent the blog…
So I was reading the last section of Jacques Barzun’s lecture on Art and he ends his thoughts with this quote from Pindar:
“The gods give us for every good thing two evil ones, and men who are children take this badly. But a manly one bears it, turning the brightness outward.”
http://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/46327578688106496
Tweet out of Japan
Duh. . . it’s incremental development based upon a previous foundation and one-upsmanship.
Yes, that sometimes happens. In pursuit of new markets, well-entrenched businesses are sometimes reluctant to risk cannibalizing themselves. Shareholders and (mainly) executives have too much at stake in the near-term rewards from the status quo. They figure they might not be around anyway in 10 years — “YBGIBG” — so they might as well feast on the one rabbit in hand instead of chase the two rabbits in the bush. Plus, less cynically, they’re also very busy just minding the store. So, they invest their capital in “rent extraction” off their prior investments.
Examples:
Xerox
Blockbuster
Microsoft
GM
….the car companies didn’t invent the safer small car.
I did. US Patent 7,699,347.
Maybe I’ll live long enough to see the invention used.
When legions of people start dying in their small cars, then ?????????????
http://www.safersmallcars.com
Tangentially reminded me of a great line I read in a comment somewhere recently:
The stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.
if I got paid in Twitter hit points I’d look this up but since I don’t I’ll wing it (hey its a blog – not real journalism)
I wonder who invented metal ? the cook / the MIC