Tech visionaries aim for elegant ideals but 80/20 "worse is better" compromises usually takeover: • UNIX, not Symbolics Genera • Linux, not Plan 9 • JS-heavy Web 2.0, not the Semantic Web When forecasting the future, consider where adopter laziness can erode elegance.
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Paradigm shifts are always going to have tons of roots and deciding moments, but I think it’s hard to deny a pattern. I like the Semantic Web example because it’s actually an unrealized intention and not a product that didn’t get adoption.
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No, I've used VMS, I've used MPE, I've read the manuals for Guardian, I've read the equivalent of shell scripts for RDOS, I've used CP/M and HDOS. Unix won because everything else you could run on a minicomputer or workstation fucking sucked.
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