RPA (basically tools anyone can use to create programmatic APIs on top of legacy software) and NoCode/LowCode (letting anyone build an app with a spreadsheet as a database representation) are the biggest shifts in enterprise software since the cloud.
It can be translated. It can be produced and consumed at variable speeds. It is asynchronous. It can be compared, diffed, clustered, corrected, summarized and filtered algorithmically. It permits multiparty editing. It permits branching conversations, lurking, annotation, quoting, reviewing, summarizing, structured responses, exegesis, even fan fic... See more
Progress is challenging, not due to a lack of imagination but due to the lack of a blank canvas Maybe Mars is the blank canvas we need to bring us all together
I predict we will have agreed upon metrics and models to reason about amplification and recommendation algorithms similar to how we talk of GDP and productivity growth to talk of the “health” of a country.1