Nerijus

“The key way to think about power in the home was that it had many phases. First, an era of people discovering and refining a technology so that it could be used. Then a period when it was only for the rich, when its possibilities were hard to recognize, when we added power to old items to improve their functionality. Finally, a period when the technology plummeted in price, became far more accessible to all, but above all else, this was when new items were created around the potential of the technology.”
― Tom Goodwin, Digital Darwinism: Survival of the Fittest in the Age of Business Disruption

“I’d proffer the thought that this is all too common, that companies built for the past may offer glimpses into the incredible, but are mired in vulnerabilities in other places. Modern-day businesses are asymmetric constructs: a legacy of patches, quick fixes, hacks, workarounds, and hope.”
― Tom Goodwin, Digital Darwinism: Survival of the Fittest in the Age of Business Disruption

“We took all the old-world systems and digitized them. Skeuomorphism, the design concept of making digital items resemble their real-world counterparts, was a way to aid the transition into the new era. Mail became e-mail, with ‘addresses’ and inboxes. We made ‘folders’ and ‘trash’ and ‘desktops’ as digital equivalents. PowerPoint had ‘slides’ like early slide projectors and floppy disks represented ‘saving’, which is wonderfully anachronistic, as is ‘return’ which stands for ‘carriage return’ from typewriters – and don’t even start me on ‘cc’ for carbon copy.”
― Tom Goodwin, Digital Darwinism: Survival of the Fittest in the Age of Business Disruption

“Companies now need to look further ahead, to try to be not just agile, but predictive, to be comfortable being uncomfortable, and to be constantly finding ways to change the core essence of what they are. They need to embrace risk.”
― Tom Goodwin, Digital Darwinism: Survival of the Fittest in the Age of Business Disruption