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Why We Freak Out About Some Technologies but Not Others
There's often a side effect to new technologies: moral panic. Facebook causes narcissism! Texting is making us illiterate! But the funny thing is, other technologies don't provoke such alarm. What's...
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The Future Of... | The Surprising Truth: Technology Is Aging in Reverse
We may be trained to think that the new is about to overcome the old, but that’s just an optical illusion. Because the failure rate of the new is much, much higher than the failure rate of the old.
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Newsmakers, In Their Words | Your Genes Don’t Fit: Why 10,000 Hours of...
By putting such an emphasis on practice, practice, practice at the expense of natural gifts, the popular interpretation of the 10,000-hour rule does a tremendous disservice to the naturally gifted. But...
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The Faster a New Technology Takes Off, the Harder It Falls
The familiar bell curve model for technology adoption, moving from early adopters to mainstream users, is dead. Today, everyone knows right away when some new offering gets it right or wrong. This new...
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Why the Rapid Spread of Some Tech Could Lead to Its Demise
How do tech ideas spread from early enthusiasts to a pragmatic majority? I tried answering that in Crossing the Chasm (1990). But a lot has changed in 20 years. A new market dynamic has resulted in a...
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