On 26 July 2013 13:33, Martijn Hoekstra <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote:
>> "As with other inventions that produced an inferior product at a much >> lower price, from the printing press to the steam-driven loom to >> Wikipedia, what happens now is largely in the hands of the people >> experimenting with the new tools, rather than defending themselves from >> them." >> http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2013/07/08/moocs-and-economic-reality/ > Those bloody kids and their newfangled inventions like the steam loom and > the printing press just don't have any respect any more. > I seriously have no idea what that paragraph is trying to say. It's a bad restatement of "worse is better" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better - the mechanism for disruptive innovation. Wherever quality comes up against convenience, convenience wins most of the time. As Gerard notes, Wikipedia is *now* better as well as more convenient, but it didn't start that way. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
