It’s Always Year Zero

In the short term, opinions about technology often follow a compressed form of Laver’s Law:

Everything just before me was completely broken. Everything that comes after me is completely unnecessary. Everything I use right now is perfectly fine; stop changing things.

We tend to judge things based on where we started, our personal “Year Zeros.” But what’s “Year Zero” for us isn’t “Year Zero” for others. And in the fullness of time, the good ideas win out and hindsight … Read article “It’s Always Year Zero”

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