{"id":5754,"date":"2009-05-29T07:03:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-11T13:09:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:28","slug":"never-underestimate-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/never-underestimate-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Never underestimate the web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe entire trajectory of technology (and its culture) from about 1970 to the end of the century could be summed up by the phrase &#8220;Never underestimate the power of chips.&#8221; All you needed to profit hugely in those 3 decades was to very firmly believe that computers would double in power and shrink in half in size and price every year &#8212; year after year for at least the next 40 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe first 40 or so years of this new century will be marked by a similar axiom:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Never underestimate the web,&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/2009\/05\/google-bets-big-on-html-5.html\">Tim O&#8217;Reilly<\/a>, reporting from the Google I\/O conference, provides a neat anecdote illustrating this principle.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Never underestimate the web,&#8221; says Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra in his keynote at Google I\/O this morning. He goes on to tell the story of a meeting he remembers when he was VP of Platform Evangelism at Microsoft five years ago. &#8220;We believed that web apps would never rival desktop apps. There was this small company called Keyhole, which made this most fantastic geo-visualization software for Windows. This was the kind of software we always used to prove to ourselves that there were things that could never be done on the web.&#8221; A few months later, Google acquired Keyhole, and shortly thereafter released Google Maps with satellite view. &#8220;We knew then that the web had won,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What was once thought impossible is now commonplace.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/browser_innovation.jpg\" height=\"341\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Browser Innovation\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entire trajectory of technology (and its culture) from about 1970 to the end of the century could be summed up by the phrase &#8220;Never underestimate the power of chips.&#8221; All you needed to profit hugely in those 3 decades &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/never-underestimate-the-web\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[269],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}