« 038/366 | 040/366 »

machine

A Vintage Machine - Photographed By Me

Back in the day a technological marvel such as this would cost you hundred and hundreds of dollars. (No joking kids). Of course the number of people you could communicate using such a device - back in the day - could be counted in the millions. So $10 does sound like a bargain, except.

Back in the Day - the cost to connection ratio was very, very small.

For example and being conservative and for the sake of round numbers …

Cost : $1000
Number of People You Can Connect To : 10,000,000
Cost to Connection Ratio : $0.0001

Today’s numbers … with the same simplicity assumptions;

Cost : $10
Number of People You Can Connect To : 10
Cost to Connection Ratio : $1

Now THAT is inflation … not to mention that back in the day the Network effect meant that you cut per connection was falling daily., whilst today, growing exponentially.

straight line

At the beginning of the year I had grand plans for this series. A daily long-form post about something that was rattling my brain that day. And then life. For a while, I was even just dropping markers - to revisit. I came to realise that part of the problem was the complexity of the structure for each post - so that went away. Simplicity really is rather nice. As I write on 240413, I am now going back and filling in the gaps. PLUS - unless something strikes me immediately, I will not classify until the end of the day and go back to move one of the posts of the day into the 366. Also - if you are wondering how I have update the words at the bottom of over 100 posts at a stroke, well - THANK YOU Andy Sylvester and his Glossary plugin.

📡 Follow with RSS

🗄️ All the posts