Mainstream indicators
- One reliable indicator when a technology or service has gone mainstream is when it’s being advertised on bus stop billboards. This Elisa ad from this week in particular shows not one or two but three things that have recently gone mainstream: Facebook, minilaptops/netbooks and mobile broadband. In particular it’s interesting to note that netbooks (the cheap small laptops) have gone mainstream so soon – while they have also been blamed for destroying business models, for many consumers they’re the best thing sliced bread. I’ve yet to jump aboard myself, pondering the usefulness of one of these versus the smartphone which has so far proven to be sufficient for my mobile needs.
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Of course, all three go hand in hand. A netbook is utterly useless without the ‘net, requiring mobile broadband. Luckily flat-rate plans with reasonable usage limits are becoming more and more available. And then you need something to while on the Internet, and what could be a better example of this than the runaway success of Facebook?
When doing the right thing twice means doing the wrong thing
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When the leftmost sliding door is broken, it’s only natural to instruct people to use the door on the right. And when the door on the right breaks, the correct course of action is to tell people to use the door on the left.
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Unless it’s already broken, that is. If it is and you do that, you end up with an endless loop. Luckily it’s very easy to spot such simple, straightforward errors in logic on the spot, right?
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Right?
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*sigh*
LOL. The doors, they just crack me up.