(September 08, 2008) Reading through the industry news this morning, I had the weirdest sense that it was 1993 all over again. That winter and early spring, versions of xMosaic found their way onto computers.
At first, it seemed like a non-event. The first web browser was an text based exercise in hyperlinking. Formatting was non-existent. It took vision to see the potential. Real work, real vision. That a revolution was brewing was only obvious to the very early adopters.
It’s fifteen years later and we’ve been through an astonishing array of revolution. Productivity surged around the world as cel phones became ubiquitous. Man people who real this can’t remember a time when phone use was rationed and controlled (it was for the first hundred years or so).
Finding a place to log on to your email account used to be an enormous amount of work. Today, you are the place. The web is nearly omnipresent.
Who could have imagined that all human knowledge would be online in such a short amount of time? That a major peoccupation would be mining that content.
And, with each revolutionary step forward, there have been
And it is and it isn’t.
