Many of the most important discoveries read at first like small tweaks to something that already existed. Often their own inventors initially thought of them this way.
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It's easiest to parse something new as a delta on something old. But to judge an idea properly you have to project it forward in time, not back. Which is so hard to do that the only wise course is to reserve judgment.
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That's why I hate it when someone posts something online and people put it down, saying it's not really new. This is not merely mean-spirited, but often factually wrong too. Whole new worlds grow from tiny deltas of novelty.
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1º angle delta seems like nothing at the point of origin.
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This is not the first time I hear someone saying this.
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Decentralize the social medias! Make community management & moderation great again!
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That is sooo true. Putting small deltas down would be like telling biological evolution to stop.
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Tim O’Reilly talks about having maps of where he thinks technology is trying to go. I imagine he measures deltas against that.
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This seems a bit sweeping to me. Surely many new things have been impossible, at least at first, to parse as mere variations on something old. Quantum mechanics stands out as a striking example. Even today, its relation to its predecessor theory remains obscure in many ways.
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The newest of new things, at any rate, seem to me often to require a great deal of sophisticated analysis before they divulge their true relation to predecessor ideas -- and that relation, once divulged, often proves largely to have eluded the discoverers of the new new thing.
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Communication and language are fundamentally contextual. Not only is describing something new in terms of existing things easy, it’s also the only way to be understood. X is the new Y is a common trope because it facilitates rapid understanding of an unknown thing.
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If I can create something completely novel and people can easily understand it as a Delta to an existing idea it has no bearing on the quality of my idea but is a good indicator of my ability to communicate my ideas.
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