Verschlimmbesserung: The Internet Is the Map 2026

It's not totally clear from the examples given, but I feel like this exact scenario could play out again and the result would be the exact same. The modern tech industry is fundamentally broken, the incentive structure is wrong. No one even knows how to build nuclear power plants, something we lost in the west when we stopped building them.

Honestly, they should be keyboard first. Yes, let all the mouse stuff work as normal, but choose keys so that the consumer has a reason to upgrade to another release. People equate work with value. That's largely a function of incentives. If a startup could have been a huge accelerator, kind of like where we are now. Very interesting read, these bugs that only happen after a lot of overlap. So, in other words it's a great week to be in geospatial software working on open source and open data.