Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Apr 9, 2015Replying to @martingeddes@martingeddes @psygnisfive Impossible things you can't do today. Unsustainable things become impossible tomorrow when scale hits a limit1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Apr 9, 2015Replying to @vgr@martingeddes @psygnisfive huge difference between today and tomorrow is time for creative options to be thought up.3
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Apr 9, 2015Replying to @martingeddes@martingeddes @psygnisfive Yup, IOW every actual system ever built as opposed to historical trash cans of Xanadu-Utopias. I'm pragmatic :)1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Apr 9, 2015Replying to @martingeddes@martingeddes @psygnisfive While you're hoping to convert an entire industry to a new religion in one lifetime.2
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Apr 9, 2015Replying to @martingeddes@martingeddes @psygnisfive sail and steam coexisted for 70 years. It's a process.1
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @martingeddes@martingeddes @psygnisfive Your counterfactual of clean-sheet "get theory right first" is not ugly. It has just never happened in tech.10:59 PM · Apr 9, 2015
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Apr 9, 2015Replying to @martingeddes@martingeddes @psygnisfive Sure, also Babbage before Collosus, transmission before Shannon, telegraph before radio.1