Google Wave and the Difficulty of Radical Change

cedarhillbilly writes "An article by Matt Asay in the Register takes on Google Wave from the perspective of visionary change versus incremental change. He suggests that visionaries should focus on smaller transformations of our day-to-day lives rather than leapfrogging. 'Much as it may want to radically change the world for users and developers, radical change generally happens over time, through a series of incremental, unexceptional edits to existing technology and processes.' Perhaps Google sensed this when they famously said they were worried about having too many geniuses. Asay revisits the point that the open source development model necessarily builds on a community of contributors and users, and not the mad scientist in an ivory tower."

Comments

Re:I couldn't disagree more

[CarpetShark]

It wasn't intended to replace web browsing

Alas, now that the project is cancelled, we'll never really know what it was supposed to be ;)

Re:I couldn't disagree more

[bennomatic]

Well, what everyone missed is that it was also a particle .