March 10, 2004Embracing technologyRoss Mayfield writes about the differing ways of embracing technology between his generation and his dad's. I am probably closer to his dad's. Being part of Generation X is a condition of being caught between booming generations. But lately it feels like being caught between revolutions. Sure, we play a larger role than our size in the creation and adoption of the information revolution. But being at the beginning of a wave means we have less mastery of our technology than our immediate predecessors. He also write here about the "hack's meme" and "users as developers". The point I am getting to is that Tim O'Reilly is really on to something with the Hacks meme. Sure, today its about hard core geeks messing with code. But the number of users as developers is increasing -- as consumers become participants in networks and collectively demand the right to self-organize when the market fails them. From the bottom-up, we are attempting to overcome the complexity we have created.Posted by jackhodgson at March 10, 2004 05:21 AM |
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