| ▲ | rpdillon 2 hours ago | |
This is a risky proposition if the technology is in some way revolutionary. The people who decided to "just not" with, for example, the internet often aren't doing business anymore. | ||
| ▲ | overfeed an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
> the internet often aren't doing business anymore. A lot of pre-Internet businesses are still here with us, and online. The one thing the survivors did not do was hitch their wagons on a predator designed in a lab to devour them - to use mixed metaphors. Barnes & Noble didn't board up their brick-and-mortar stores to replace them with an Amazon storefront - they figured out how to use the Internet without handing over the family jewels. | ||
| ▲ | vrganj 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
The internet was inherently decentralized. This is inherently centralizing. The direction of travel is opposite. | ||