The Future is Here

What's Drupal got to do with it?

Computers and the Internet are everywhere and the world is increasingly made of them.

Cory Doctorow, "The coming civil war over general purpose computing"

The future is already here—

Robin Capper, Cell phone towers powered by solar panels, Nepal

it’s just not very evenly distributed.

IndyDina, "Moundsville Penitentiary, West Virginia"

jekyllrb.com

peggydavis66, "Coal power plant"

squarespace.com

thegrid.io

letting enterprise users do the stuff they think will allow them to make more money for their companies will sometimes make their companies more money

Cory Doctorow, "The coming civil war over general purpose computing"

Azuri Technologies, Rwanda pay-as-you-go

Companies with valuations based largely on your data

Acxiom ($1.3B)
Uber ($41B)
Palantir Technologies ($10B)
Yelp ($1.47B)
Facebook ($255B)
Google ($403B)

Steve Jurvetson, "Solar Rainbow greeting me as I awoke on my birthday"

We are the network. We effect (create, cause, bring into being) the value.
Open platforms have disadvantages to closed: in making up-front investment (one entity controlling a platform can capture the value more easily), can be easier to make a good user experience
Open platforms have advantages over closed: more companies can try their ideas, more different needs can be served (long tail).

walled gardens are winning
because they have a superior
user experience Dries Buytaert

Dries Buytaert, Winning back the open web

Share data
???
Profit

Gardeneuron.net

As value shifts from software to the ability to leverage data, companies will have to rethink their businesses, just as Netflix and Google did. Dries Buytaert

Dries Buytaert, The future of software is data-driven