Web Design: First 100 Years Flashcards
There a physical and ______ economic barriers not worth crossing in the advancement of the internet
economic
The devices we are using are becoming ______ _______ to the point where we can focus on making them cheaper, more efficient, and more accessible
good enough
Having a portable device outweighs the disadvantages of things such as limited _____, weak processors, and little _____ compared to the desktop counterpart
memory, storage
Why does industry turn away from super high performance?
- People don’t need it
- Economic reasons
Exponential ______ has given us bad habits
growth
Exponential growth means the thing that comes next will be _______ important to everything that came before. So if you don’t work on the next big thing, you’re nothing.
equally
Due to _______ _________, we no longer take care of thing created in the past
Exponential hangover
We work almost exclusively on _______ technologies
legacy
On the flip side of our disregard for the past is a love of ______. What would an example be?
change, Microsoft office
Vendors insist we look on ____________ as our moral duty
upgrading
Software forever remains at the limits of what people will put up with. Developers and designers together create _________ systems in hopes that the hardware will catch up in time and cover their mistakes.
bloated/overweight
Exponential growth can lead to a feeling of exponential _______. What’s the point in working on something now that will be obsolete in a few months?
despair
The cult of growth discourages building something useful unless you can bring it to ____ scale
internet
What are the 3 types of internets the author talks about?
Vision 1: CONNECT KNOWLEDGE, PEOPLE, AND CATS.
Vision 2: FIX THE WORLD WITH SOFTWARE
Vision 3: Internet is the first step. Next is implants, etc
