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by vacri 5357 days ago
And if you did, you'd be missing the point. The explosion of computing in the general public over the past 20 years has seen the explosion of innovation - "the internet", as an industry, is really only 15 years old. Not even that. And yet it's innovated and transformed forever our modern societies.

That innovation has been driven by the masses being able to create things on their computers. Something that potentially restricts the ability to innovate across the masses shouldn't just be handwaved away like yet another whine.
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GHFigs 5357 days ago
That innovation has been driven by the masses being able to create things on their computers.

Has it?

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vacri 5357 days ago
Where did everything that's on the internet exist before ~1995?

How did you access it?

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GHFigs 5357 days ago
I don't understand what you're driving at.

Software represents only a fraction of "everything that's on the Internet", creators of software only a fraction of creators in general, and creators in general being only a fraction of "the masses".

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vacri 5356 days ago
That there has been so much software written, and content created with that software, and support structures to supply that content to you (like networking or ecommerce) indicates that folks have to be able to innovate - the greater the mass of people that can tinker, the greater the mass of creators you get.

There was a much higher ratio of creators to users in the computer world in the 60s. But there wasn't the sheer volume of innovation there has been since the masses got involved - even though there's a lower ratio of creators, the absolute number of creators is far higher - hell, we're even on a site that is designed to do nothing but cater for this influx of creators, and it's getting one application a minute.

The fewer people that have exposure to tinkering, the lower the number of innovators overall.

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GHFigs 5356 days ago
Writing software is not the only kind of creation.
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vacri 5356 days ago
Yes, and? Pretty much all the 'non-software' stuff you create with some form of electronic device requires software to make it. If there are fewer software writers, there are fewer kinds of software, and less non-software-cration stuff you can do with it.
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ugh 5357 days ago
How does it restrict?
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