What Bruce Sterling Actually Said About Web 2.0 at Webstock 09 | Beyond The Beyond
What Bruce Sterling Actually Said About Web 2.0 at Webstock 09 | Beyond The Beyond
I love this essay. I've read it before and I just read it again because it's so great. Here's a few excellent excerpts:
"You can’t build a “platform” on a “cloud!” That is a wildly mixed metaphor! A cloud is insubstantial, while a platform is a solid foundation! The platform falls through the cloud and is smashed to earth like a plummeting stock price!"
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"The World Wide Web sits on top of a turtle, and then below that is an older turtle, and that sits on the older turtle. You don’t have to feel fretful about that situation - because it’s turtles all the way down."
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"What I have to wonder is: how much of Javascript’s great power is based on an attitude that Javascript is up to the job? Duct-taping the turtles all the way down."