1/ New technologies often arrive with flaws: toy-like, expensive, janky, lacking clear applications, etc. To predict how they’ll develop, it’s important to dig deeper. Here are a few common ways new technologies can be misunderstood. 2/ “It’s just a toy.” This was the mistake made early on about breakthrough technologies like the telephone, personal computers, and social media. The next big thing will start out looking like a toy Chris Dixon's blog. cdixon.org 3/ When the telephone was f...

1/ New technologies often arrive with flaws: toy-like, expensive, janky, lacking clear applications, etc. To predict how they’ll develop, it’s important to dig deeper. Here are a few common ways new technologies can be misunderstood. 2/ “It’s just a toy.” This was the mistake made early on about breakthrough technologies like the telephone, personal computers, and social media. The next big thing will start out looking like a toy Chris Dixon's blog. cdixon.org 3/ When the telephone was f...