fighting the lack of good ideas
Roads are empty something like 90% of the time. 8% of the time, they’re rightly-sized. 1.5% of time, they’re a little tight. But that .5%? Holy CRAP are they ever too small when they’re too small! Imagine if the “*-as-a-Service” model could be applied to roads: expand their capacity on-demand as use requires. It works…
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They had flying cars. That would fold-up into a briefcase. They had magic bubbles that’d pop out from their fingers to shroud themselves on their floaty-seats that delivered them to school or the mall. But they used cash. Really? With all the crazy futuristic stuff they tried to wedge into that program, the creators thought we’d…
But the HomePod is an interesting take on my suggestion of making the Apple TV better.
I think, closer to the lines of thought that Ben Thompson of Stratechery has laid-out, that news publishing is about to undergo a major nichification – the days of everyone trying to report everything is over. “Local” (whether by geography, interest, or some other grouping mechanism) publishing in narrowly-defined niches is basically going to finish gobbling…