The essential value of these information technologies – their ability to seamlessly interface with each other as only bits, rather than atoms, can – is being purposely eroded.
MIT Technology Review contributor John Pavlus • Discussing the current trend of social media networks breaking their apps’ ability to share to gain competitive advantages, particularly in the case of Twitter and Instagram. Pavlus, understandably, mocks them: “The vision is almost comically retrograde: Twitter, Google, Apple, and Facebook each seem to think that they can provide every conceivable digital functionality to the user all on their own at each other’s expense, much like GM’s ‘kitchen of tomorrow’ at the 1964 World’s Fair promised to meet every need of a 20th-century housewife with one brand.”
