This is humorous, but also about on par for ads these days. This wasn’t possible a decade ago. I don’t doubt that some teams are going to get a lot smaller as this thing rolls forward.
Optimistically, that will mean a higher number of small teams working on more products.
Do we really need more products, though?
Well, we don't need more throwaway trinkets. On the other hand, there are diseases to be cured, environmental problems to be solved, asteroids to mine, universal speech translators to implement....If those are "products," then more teams would be great.
The hard thing as I see it is that the barriers to progress aren't mainly technical right now. They're social, political, tribal, and in some sense spiritual.
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This is humorous, but also about on par for ads these days. This wasn’t possible a decade ago. I don’t doubt that some teams are going to get a lot smaller as this thing rolls forward.
Optimistically, that will mean a higher number of small teams working on more products.
Do we really need more products, though?
Well, we don't need more throwaway trinkets. On the other hand, there are diseases to be cured, environmental problems to be solved, asteroids to mine, universal speech translators to implement....If those are "products," then more teams would be great.
The hard thing as I see it is that the barriers to progress aren't mainly technical right now. They're social, political, tribal, and in some sense spiritual.
Did you mean optimally? Maybe optimistically is a word too I just got confused while reading.