Re:Manhole Covers Serve as Antennas Expanding Wireless Netwo...
by TeMPOraL on Thursday December 20, 2018 @07:05AM
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> Fifth, sometimes applications happen when the technology is there to accommodate it.
I like to call it the "infrastructure pattern", via [0]. If something serves (or could serve) as an enabler for other activities, it's important to make it more capable than the immediate needs would dictate, as this allows for new applications to appear. Internet speed & bandwidth is a great example of this, and so is CPU speed, RAM, and storage size. I'd go as far as saying that the history of civilization is one big series of "I know we don't need this" followed by new applications spawned by the surplus.
I like to call it the "infrastructure pattern", via [0]. If something serves (or could serve) as an enabler for other activities, it's important to make it more capable than the immediate needs would dictate, as this allows for new applications to appear. Internet speed & bandwidth is a great example of this, and so is CPU speed, RAM, and storage size. I'd go as far as saying that the history of civilization is one big series of "I know we don't need this" followed by new applications spawned by the surplus.
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[0] - https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/The_Infrastructure_Pattern