When
· Naughties
· · 2004
· · · January
· · · · 04 (1 entry)
TPSM 2: Technology Losers ·
In predicting the future from the past, it would be foolish to look only at past successes. So here is another important basis for the Technology Predictor Success Matrix: a list of technologies that, at one important level or another, are failures. I’m sure that any number of people will protest over one or the other of these, citing their influence on later technologies or people or companies. But consider, for those on the this list, the answers to two questions: Are people using them? Did anyone make serious money based on them? And you’ll generally get two negatives ...
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