In May 1992, I PCS’d from the 305 ARW/FM office at Grissom AFB into the 126 ARW/FM office at O’Hare. I had just a few days overlap with the person I was replacing, who was departing for a position at NGB/HQ. A year or so later, he was back at the unit for a visit and said “I hear you’re good with computers, here’s something to play around with. It’s a program that gets you onto the internet written by a guy at U of I. Just be careful with it.” The disc had Mosaic written on it. Sneaker-net was very effective back in the day.
30 years later, cool to hear this interview with Marc Andreesen and how he developed Mosaic (which became Netscape).
#290 — What Went Wrong? – Making Sense with Sam Harris
Marc’s comment about change within the tech industry applies across sectors. Change disrupts the status quo, which threatens the existing power structure. Good, healthy change will always be fought against if a power shift is a possible outcome.
“…Any new technology that works is a reordering of status and power in the system…what do they hate more than anything else? Reordering of status and power, right? There’s only downside for them and so they just go crazy. And that’s when they pull out all the stops and they call you names and they try to put you in jail and they do everything under the sun they can possibly do to sabotage it.”