Machine learning fits in here somewhere, but I'm not entirely sure how.
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Hmm... what's happening now is actually what I called out in 2012 in this August 2010 blog post which is equal parts prescient and cringe given what I knew at the time. None of the products I cite, including my own, has survived, but we saw this coming.
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Oddly enough, though a core piece of it (React) came out of mobile imperatives, none of this is mobile-centric. It's almost as if heavy apps and a mobile-centric experience are missing from the equation. This is a browser-level renaissance.
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If I tentatively tag "something something blockchain" as the 4.0 era starting ~2025-30, I *do* not mean things that look like crypto/blockchain ideological visions of today. I mean something built out of the parts being tested today via trial and error.
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Specifically, I do *not* think we're headed to a p2p utopia of Sovereign Individuals. Ideologues with that bent who vaguely sealion me every time I tweet about this stuff remind me strongly of SemWeb/OWL ideologues from early aughts.
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Specifically, the ways in which SemWeb-flavored ideas are actually finally making their way into production web (ht ) don't look at all like the visions the ideologues were painting circa 2004-09. Something similar is going to happen to blockchain/decentralized web
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Urbit people go away 😆
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wow you too? can you do a 100 tweet urbit eli5, or 5 tweets, as many tweets as it takes i guess
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" asked me not to write 100 opinions on Urbit, and honestly he has a point, but let's embrace the edge."
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I said not to TAG me! Untag me now ruffian!
Urbit people keep trying to sealion me anytime I comment on tech future.
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