Founding executive editor of Wired and earlier editor of the Whole Earth Review; writes on technology and its long-run direction.
Out of Control described decentralised and emergent systems - swarms, networks, co-evolution, systems that improve without a controller - in 1994, well before platform and marketplace businesses were built on those properties. The Inevitable names twelve ongoing technological shifts, including the move from ownership to access and from products to continuously updated services, which is the frame a large share of software and marketplace theses now assume.
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