Reinventing the wheel, Maslow's hammer, and programmer archaeologists
Submitted by yelvington on November 5, 2006 - 12:27pmI was struck by Susan Elliott Sim's posting on Slashdot titled "No more coding from Scratch?" To me, the responses seemed to scatter far from the mark. We are reaching a point where the rules of technology development shift at a fundamental level.
This has a direct bearing on those of us working in media, as technology and media are now deeply interconnected. I'll illustrate some of the implications of that.