4 Dec
2008
4 Dec
'08
2:23 p.m.
I think the clever society is getting burned down as
we know it
Clever is now content, not the tool.
Computers and other electronic devices, and the communications
infrastructure are a given. The invention now is what can be done
with this hardware, which is now generally too complicated to build
yourself, and as a result has just moved up a level. Even software
tools are now pretty much taken for granted. You just program to
fill in holes in the already existing tool space.
This shift pretty much defines what I see coming out of people fresh
out of college now, and most things dot-com and forward.