marcelweiss

This looks really good.

I used the headline from Quartz here. I wonder though if that development would not instead lead to Africa leapfrogging certain industrial stages. I'm always amazed that so many people see jobs and automation as a zero-sum game.

Fascinating. Thx!

I always found Mike Loukides to be insightful but this makes me wonder if he truly does not understand the dynamics underyling a networked economy. Google and Facebook are big not because the Internet wasn‘t built to prevent them but because friction went away at crucial points that made scale effects possible not seen before. No matter what protocol and infrastructure you put at the base of the network, at one point there will always arise some large aggregators one or two or more levels up.

Still, I wonder why not more efforts are put into building different network backbones and entry points besides the current ISP model. There are already local, successful examples of this, born out of necessity. (in Greece for example)

Maybe. But the numbers don't point to a significant departure of Prime subscribers. https://earlymoves.com/2016/01/29/amazon-prime-memberships-g...

I didn't mean to imply that they are waiting. This is just one part of the preperation stage, so to speak. In fact they already have begun. (see the end of the article for links to rumors and actual current movements into logistics by Amazon.) The timing and the incentives (employee retention) line up.

You should install a cache plugin. :)