{"id":554,"date":"2011-04-17T13:42:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T20:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/blog\/?p=554"},"modified":"2014-03-28T03:49:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T10:49:47","slug":"how-to-recognize-a-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/2011\/04\/how-to-recognize-a-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"How to recognize a revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most recurrent and difficult question I get, and probably the most recurrent in the industry is <em>how&#8217;s the world gonna look like in 5 years?<\/em> What&#8217;s <em>the next big thing?<\/em>. My usual answer is &#8220;if I knew, I&#8217;ll be doing that&#8221; (and that&#8217;s probably what&#8217;s happening :)) but the point is that the horizon of predictions in this fast paced internet era is too close to us.<\/p>\n<p>Two years and 6 months ago the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HTC_Dream\" target=\"_blank\">first<\/a>, rudimental and slow Android device was born. If feels like <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilewhack.com\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/03\/htc-dream-orange.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">prehistory<\/a><\/em> now, and it&#8217;s just 2 years ago.. then the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Motorola_Droid\" target=\"_blank\">DROID<\/a>s came, then the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samsung_Galaxy_S\" target=\"_blank\">Galaxy<\/a>s, and you can see their impact on the world in this beautiful video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Global Android Activations, Oct &#039;08 - Jan &#039;11\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fqFpq9WXbJo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Do you see how quickly this is happening? What&#8217;s in your face IS a revolution, because when you\u00a0buy one of them, you don&#8217;t just get a brilliant colorful expensive eye-catching plastic toy.<\/p>\n<p>What you\u00a0<em>buy<\/em> is the <strong>sense of protection<\/strong>, for\u00a0<em>not feeling lost<\/em> when travelling though\u00a0neighborhoods\u00a0or new cities, for always having friends within reach and multiple ways of communicating with them, for always knowing which is the closest+cheapest+healthiest+toprated Korean place, and when you are looking at your calendar and you arrive <em>perfectly on time<\/em> at that very important meeting you&#8217;ll even feel like\u00a0<em>a better person<\/em> (well, this applies just to me, and few other Italians :).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7rZbvi6Tj6E\" target=\"_blank\">Talking about the revolution<\/a>, do you see it now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most recurrent and difficult question I get, and probably the most recurrent in the industry is how&#8217;s the world gonna look like in 5 years? What&#8217;s the next big thing?. My usual answer is &#8220;if I knew, I&#8217;ll be doing that&#8221; (and that&#8217;s probably what&#8217;s happening :)) but the point is that the horizon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[36,10,37,22],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job","tag-android","tag-avanguardia","tag-future","tag-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}