Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other applications. We're entering an era in which software learns from its users and all of the users are connected.
Tim O'ReillyApple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there.
Tim O'ReillyEarly on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.
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