Anything New?

post by billswift · 2011-12-22T11:53:32.492Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 0 comments

In a discussion on HackerNews that went a little sideways, I left this comment:

I haven't seen much original on the internet. Almost every "new" idea I have seen on the Net I saw in print in the 1980s or 1990s. Even if the software is just now catching up to the ideas.

Thinking about it more, I cannot think of a single new idea that I have read in more than a decade.  The closest is Robin's take on the primacy of status and signalling, and even that is really just an extension.

So what are your candidates for really new ideas?

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