Baby boomers are more tech savvy than their parents, having learned how to use computers and iphones during much of their working life, and may be more amenable to embracing (ever evolving) tech in their daily lives. This means that both post-retirement and elderly consumers themselves, as well as their aides both at home and in facilities, will be... See more
Traditional parents were in the business of handing to their children a settled way of life: values, habits, standards, practices, skills, sometimes a job. On this older picture, it was the role of the parent to give—“tradition” comes from tradere, “to hand over”—and the child to accept, obediently. If I were a traditional parent, I would be trying... See more
And even with Amazon, Amazon really is a logistics company, I mean the core product for consumers isn't really that great. I don't know of anyone who opens up Amazon and says, "Wow, I love ordering things here, the experience of using Amazon is so much fun." I think the experience that people like is the quick shipping. I mean they built out that l... See more
We’ve spilled a lot of ink over decentralizing social networks, but most users are still on centralized ones. Why hasn’t this changed already? There are three challenging problems with decentralizing social networks that have slowed adoption: scaling networks, decentralizing the name registry, and building novel social primitives. But for the first... See more
Twitter is the public war zone; it is the new parliament where ideas are shared and challenged, and it’s actually upstream of governments. You can learn a lot from Twitter by following interesting people and accounts, but it is easy to overdose on the serendipity of it