From Austin Startup, April 3, 2009...
The quest for the “killer app” is like the search for the Holy Grail: irresistible and never-ending. Of course, like website UIs and Michelle Obama’s wardrobe, everyone has an opinion about what it will be. Many think the answer is communications. I enjoyed a recent interview with Tim Bray, Director of Web Technologies at Sun, on this subject. You can watch (or read) his full interview. Here’s the relevant excerpt:
“One thing though: every killer app on the Internet, every success story on the Internet entirely without exception has been about communication. The killer app of the Internet is people there is always people I don’t think any reason to think that it is not going to be people, email, the web, lightweight publishing, chat, IM, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, Flick, Youtube, it’s all about finding new ways of sharing with other people. We have got all these communication channels and a couple of centuries ago to talk and be in the same room and the phone came along and then eventually email came along, and then chat came along and IRC and IM and Twitter and until Twitter existing nobody could have predicted that you needed a thing like that. But now for many of us it’s an essential part of our daily work environment and how many other communication channels that we don’t know we need are going to be invented and quick become essential. So I think that we can safely predict that as long as the Internet grows, its primary effect will be to facilitate easier and richer communications between human beings, the infrastructure we use to build that effect is to be invented.”
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