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Mark Cuban explains his "The Internet is Dead and Boring" statement (blogmaverick.com)
6 points by nickb on Aug 27, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



The examples he gives don't support his point very well. The arrival of moveable type, for example, set off an era of exciting changes that lasted a lot more than a generation. I'm not sure what Mark Cuban has stored in his head on that subject, but I suspect it would fit on a 3x5 index card.

The wheel was the defining breakthrough for a generation? This is not a man you want to take history lessons from.

His fundamental mistake is that he doesn't realize that social changes take a lot longer than technical ones. And new mediums of communication cause a lot of social changes. The Facebook would have been possible in 1995. It didn't happen till 2004. There would be a lot more such innovations still in the pipeline even if the physical Internet stopped changing today. (Not that it will.)


so, for Mark it's exciting only as long as things don't work and you have to worry about them... nice point ;-)




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