Re:Ask HN: Why did this idea of Internet Time not work?
by gry on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @01:58PM
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Its akin to the United States moving to the metric system or the internet to IPv6, methinks. Both are wonderful in theory, but the transition is painful. The only way I see it becoming pervasive is either a) another recession and a stimulus package going from a green economy to an internet time one (just sayin' ;) ) or b) slow, steady introduction, which would be generations in the making.
99.9 people out of 100 would look at what you just wrote with a blank stare.
This didn't work because there's no way to sell it to 99.9% of people. It might be more elegant and simpler mathematically, but you're fighting against centuries of inertia for little to no gain to the very people that would need to adopt this to make it work.
I can't believe we're even talking about this :)