Comments on: Victor Scardigli: the meaning/direction of technique http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2008/03/27/victor-scardigli-the-meaningdirection-of-technique/ mind/tech bazar from outer space Fri, 16 May 2008 03:36:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: Michael Zuschlag http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2008/03/27/victor-scardigli-the-meaningdirection-of-technique/#comment-462639 Michael Zuschlag Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:04:05 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2008/03/27/victor-scardigli-the-meaningdirection-of-technique/#comment-462639 Interesting. Seems to represent a more sophisticated version of Robert X. Cringley's Unnumbered Law: People tend to overestimate change in the short term and underestimate it in the long term (http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2000/pulpit_20000309_000643.html). Also seems related to his recently stated Nth Law: Waves of technological innovation take approximately 30 years - one human generation - to be completely absorbed by our culture (http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080321_004574.html). Interesting. Seems to represent a more sophisticated version of Robert X. Cringley’s Unnumbered Law: People tend to overestimate change in the short term and underestimate it in the long term (http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2000/pulpit_20000309_000643.html).

Also seems related to his recently stated Nth Law: Waves of technological innovation take approximately 30 years - one human generation - to be completely absorbed by our culture (http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080321_004574.html).

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