đ ref - wtf is a platform technology?
collecting insights to build understanding on what a âplatformâ technology is (alternatively: a tech stack)
đ ref - wtf is a platform technology?
collecting insights to build understanding on what a âplatformâ technology is (alternatively: a tech stack)
Example âplatformâ company description
Putting us more in the region of 3M than gore-tex
Non-woven Materials
After half a century of exploring uses for non-woven materials, 3M is still finding new ways to refine and apply them. In medical tapes, they provide comfort to patients. In abrasives, they improve durability and ease of use. As insulators, they make your car quieter and your jacket warmer. Thanks to 3Mâs expertise in advanced materials and sophisticated manufacturing technologies, new opportunities for non-wovens are being developed in health care, consumer products and heavy industry.
Platform building is, by definition, a kind of exercise in emergent behavior. The tiny Scleractinia polyp isnât actively trying to create an underwater Las Vegas, but nonetheless out of its steady laborâimbibing algae and erecting those aragonite skeletonsâa higher-level system emerges.
The most generative platforms come in stacks, most conspicuously in the layered platform of the Web. (The phrase âplatform stackâ itself is part of the common parlance of modern programming.) The Web can be imagined as a kind of archaeological site, with layers upon layers of platforms buried beneath every page.
âWe need to think of platforms not as tools we use, but as worlds we live in.â
(Benjamin Bratton)