dont mean to dunk on mr s rather just want to note that from an industrial perspective we are aeons ahead of where we were in 2010 its not all backend exactly but the 2010s were dizzying in buildouthttps://twitter.com/mr_scientism/status/1344794997477011463 …
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not all of this has seeped out of tech and probably some of it never will but like home depot employs data scientists a lot of them
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one way to look at it 2010 vs 2019 employee counts for AMZN: 35k --> 800k FB: 3.5k --> 45k GOOG: 24k --> 120k APPL: 49k --> 147k this is actually boring to put together on mobile but imagine a lot more figures like this
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these changes have gutted entire industries
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but more importantly new industrial practices, extremely effective ones, are still concentrated at the largest firms the information industrial revolution is not nearly concluded where it began, and yet existing practices have not been widely adopted elsewhere night is young
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im expected changes to ways of living as substantial as those of the first and second industrial revolutions, not because of any given piece of gimmicky tech but by the cumulative effect of how businesses operate, what skills are valuable (or not), and what we are able to build
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Can you be more specific? What concrete effects do you expect people outside of tech to notice from these changes?
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god I have no idea i mean the industrial revolution moved most of humanity from fire-heated hovels to electrified and plumbed urban living consuming mass-produced goods who knows what happens this time
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