Inflection Point – When It All Explodes
Peter H. Diamandis
Data-driven optimist inspiring entrepreneurs through research, investment & community to create an abundant future for humanity | M.D. | Futurist | Speaker | Podcast Host | 4x NY Times Best-Selling Author
The earliest Internet was built by the military, designed to help scientists around the nation gain access to those rare room-sized computers located at MIT, Stanford and a few key institutions.
Use of the early ARPAnet was slow, cumbersome and awkward – that is, until Marc Andreessen created Mosaic, the first widely accessible Internet browser.
When Mosaic launched in 1993, there were only 26 websites.
In 1994, there were 10,000.
By 1998, there were millions.
Mosaic (later Netscape) was a “user interface moment.”
A user interface moment is the instant when a technology goes viral – when a simple interface allows unfamiliar users to build revenue-generating processes on top of a previously convoluted, inaccessible system (e.g. the early Internet).
Check out this video from my Abundance 360 Digital Program, where I highlight user interface moments and how to capitalize on them as an entrepreneur.
Other User Interface Moments
As discussed, Mosaic wasn’t the only important user interface moment in recent history.
Fortran, one of the first programming languages, allowed average users to use complex IBM computers.
The iPhone’s App Store allowed individuals to write programs that can instantly download into the hands of hundreds of millions of users.
Since just 2008, some 300,000 developers have written over 2 million apps that have been downloaded over 140 billion times.
Developers on the Apple App Store generated over $20 billion in revenue in 2016 alone.
As an exponential entrepreneur, it is your job to look at the exponential roadmap ahead and identify user interface moments.
If you’re not building them, learn to recognize them, so you can capitalize on them when the moment presents itself.
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Business Growth Specialist | Business Community Leader| Business Connector
7 年Great post, thanks.
Public Relations Specialist | Serving Those Who Serve Others | Crafting Influence, Building Authority, Driving Results
7 年Peter, either we connect now and we work together. Or I shake your hand in a few years and you'll wish you would've met me now... What's it gona be?? You're an incredible leader for our generation. Let's keep moving!
Mapping Analyst at ComEd
7 年Was thinking lately / wondering (and I'm not a "conspiracy theorist"): If there are people in control moving the world at their whims (behind the scenes, puppet-mastering wars, revolutions and the like), as one of the regular people / being one of the "chess pieces," to what end does adopting to the changes coming affect my / our dynamic with the "shadow" players supposedly running the world? And - are they trying to suppress the changes / singularity? Creepy to think... but I want to be an adopter of the changes. I want to ride the wave, I will embrace it.
Investing, Acquisitions & Scalling Up
7 年Thanx that was insightfull.
Disruptive Innovation via R&D
7 年Given that we are at the knee of the curve the number of disruptions will begin to rapidly increase in size and number across the economy. Eventually there will be seemingly sudden, unexpected disruptions of entire industries. Consequently, as we go up the curve, there will be many small teams of people making mind boggling wealth and in the process the unintended consequence their efforts will be structural unemployment catastrophic with an equally mind boggling number of people thus affected. This will probably happen faster than we predict. It seems as if some are gearing up for Hunger Games. The money seems not in favor of safety net given the looks of what is going down in DC. Is there an alternative to the Koch brand of Hunger Games? The societal aspect must be dealt with first or things will get quite messy.