Ben Thompson@benthompson·May 4, 2016I like this. Resonates re: Twitter too.Quote TweetVenkatesh Rao@vgr·May 4, 20161/ Hypothesis: there are technologies so basic that they serve as prequels to economic organization and utility vs. private type debates31335
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @benthompson@benthompson I have no idea how to test the hypothesis...but old precedent: PARC was "too big"...corps born of it now 10x Xerox size6:57 PM · May 4, 20162 Likes
Ben Thompson@benthompson·May 4, 2016Replying to @vgr@vgr it's really great. One of the smartest things I've read in a while. Should be a blog post ;)11
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·May 4, 2016Replying to @benthompson@benthompson Don't have grounded sense of landscape to write one. I'll trade you +1 year subscription for rights to a rigorous treatment :D1
@crossslide·May 4, 2016Replying to @vgr@vgr @benthompson was going to say ... your "Unix shell" example here feels to me like nerd-flavored way of saying OS in general1