DISQUS

Terry · 1 year ago

all good points Mr Whatley, its natural that these kinds of things will eventually catch on and hopefully in 10-15 years or so they will be mainstream - however knowing that is one thing, convincing investors ( the real people behind these services) that they need to wait for this long to see a return is another thing entirely. As much as we might not like it these are the people pulling the strings in the mobile industry and they want as big a user base as possible, as soon as possible. Unfortunately the people with big bags of money will always dictate, unless the revolution comes and they are all lined up against the wall and shot...
SteveRowlands · 1 year ago

"Tell your Dad to make a phone call by pushing the Skype button, and he will. Tell him to make a call over Skype? He’ll look at you like you’re from Mars."

Never a truer word spoken Mr W. Good work dude!
Constantine · 1 year ago

Which is why when the 14 year old children of today are 80 years old the world will be a better piece.

The girl jumping behind the screen behavior you mentioned, that was from this epic speech: http://www.shirky.com/herecomeseverybody/2008/0...

And if you want the video: http://blip.tv/file/855937
James Whatley · 1 year ago

That's it! Cheers Stefan. It wasn't actually a blog post at all.

I'm reading Shirky's book "Here Comes Everybody" at the moment.
That'll be it then.

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4b1L · 1 year ago

very nice article :)