humj

Alright, Color's gotten a lot of backlash since launch for a terrible first experience, bad UX, being overfunded, not rolling out correctly, among many other things. Now am i the only one that thinks they're absolutely winning? And I mean winning in the Charlie Sheen sense.

Imagine the other alternative. An allstar team raises a crap-ton of money. They launch a 1.0. and do everything right. We check it out and everything looks ok. Everything is as expected and we go back to our business. At the end of the day, they still have an all-star team, a ton of money and not all that much more.

What do they have now? Now they have a story. A ton of money and gasp a train wreck. They got something we didn't expect and we can't look away. Theyve created a stir with a terrible product. Now, they still have an all-start team, ton of money, and also, they have our attention. Question is now if they'll pull something out of their back pockets before we forget about it.

So I've been entertaining a thought due to the state of the internet and recent events that I decided I'd share with HN. Is the internet a microcosm for all of humanity? Consider the history of the internet and the history of humanity.

In the beginning, everything was open. There wasn't much governing the internet, no powerful forces. There wasn't much structure. This was like precivilization. Small groups in different pockets of the world.

Then came an age of powerful closed empires, AOL & Yahoo, monarchs or dictators that controlled information and wealth.

Then everything became open: Google, and the rise of open source. For humanity, this happened at different points for different civilizations: The people revolted and there was chaos. People got their freedom but didn't always know what to do, which led to civilization today.

Psuedo-Democracy. Most nations claiming democracy are still ruled by special interests to varying degrees. The successful ones satsify the average user/citizen by being free enough on the surface. It's the age of Apple & Facebook.

As far as a thought exercise, this may be a bit of a stretch for some, but if you could entertain this thought as well, what happens next?