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Watching time, the only true currency // A journal from John B. Roberts

Everyone has to read Shirky

And everyone does. His latest: “Situated Software,” from which, a quote:

Expectations of longevity, though, are the temporal version of scale — we assume applications should work for long periods in part because it costs so much to create them. Once it’s cheap and easy to throw together an application, though, that rationale weakens. Businesses routinely ask teams of well-paid people to put hundreds of hours of work creating a single PowerPoint deck that will be looked at in a single meeting. The idea that software should be built for many users, or last for many years, are cultural assumptions not required by the software itself.

I’m printing the whole essay for a further read.

March 2004
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