FT2ft2.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Indeed. It was a milestone compared to what went before, and enabled citing to become a norm or expectation (rather than an option) in practice not just theory.
But its some years on and we're in the #5 and useability... methynks we can do better still :)
Well, people who actually work on things tend to be conservative, and like their work to be appreciated. Coincidentally, conservatism in general is largely about just appreciating what's been done and what actually *is. Liberals and forward thinkers tend to get too interested in what could be, forgetting that what *is took work - work that we futurists may not actually be capable of doing ourselves.
Still, we see cases all the time where the fundamental components have been around for years and even decades - it took vision, not work, to figure out how to put them together in a better way. For example, 160-character messaging, technically speaking, is a limitation - not an innovation. ;)
-Stevertigo