Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)
by bluecmd on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @02:01AM
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Quite interesting that super-sonic flight was achieved 1946. I don't know if Orville was informed, but imagine that - from barely flying to supersonic in 40 years.
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Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)
by bencollier49 on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @06:59AM
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There is an often-quoted truthoid that says that any technology takes 50 years from inception to maturity.
Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)
by contravariant on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @07:06PM
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Seems to work for big scientific theories as well, more or less. Although an alternative explanation is that after 50 or so most of the original group of people driving the development will be gone, and as a result you end up with several loosely connected but separate developments. Which isn't really a sign of maturity, but merely a lack of coherence.