An inspiring video.
Jan 28, 2009
Internet industry vs. electric industry
I have always had extra big admiration for Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. In this video he explains how the dot-com boom and bust is often compared to the Gold Rush, but that its more like the early days of the electric industry.
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I like how the electric appliances industry started "misusing" light bulb sockets that were placed on ceilings. Innovation happened on top of something really powerful (the electric grid), but which wasn't designed for all the new use cases.
And also makes you wonder what are the "light bulb socket"-equivalents in internet.
Exactly. I think the core of internet was designed brilliantly to be extended for the new uses cases. The "light bulb socket" equivalent seem to happen on top of the second and third layers and interestingly many examples are about users innovating new uses: musicians misusing gmail as a storage for large WAV files, people misusing the original game behind the Flickr just for social photo sharing, misusing social networks for other type of communication (Twitter is full of these examples)
That's why I think it is important to try not to carve web products and services into stone (dead-ending users), and instead make them transparent, loose and open for misuse. No one will ever know exactly how their products will end up being used anyway.
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