thread: 2005-06-16 : Craft and Innovation
On 2005-06-17, Avram wrote:
Eighteen months? Jeez!The web was invented in 1992, the first betas of Netscape Navigator were released in 1994, CSS became an official web standard in 1996, and just this past year or so we've finally got good, mostly standards-compliant web browsers.
I once (15-20 years ago) read a bunch of stuff by Buckminster Fuller, who said that each industry has a time scale over which it can accomodate major new ideas. He suggested that for housing (he was trying to develop cheap pre-fab houses) that time scale was, I think, something like 75 years.
Don't let me catch you whining over an eighteen-month evolutionary cycle.
