THE CODE ISSUE 18
Duda Owner IONOS • July 23, 2015
Here is another one of my favorite quotes from the special double issue of Bloomberg Businessweek on computer coding. This one addresses some of the creative destruction that has accompanied our technology revolution (Paul Ford, “The Code Issue”, 6/15/15–6/28/15, p. 74):
“ Of course, while we were trying to build a bookstore [Amazon.com], we actually built the death of bookstores—that seems to happen a lot in the business. You set out to do something cool and end up destroying lots of things that came before. ”
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