Be Better, Not Smaller | Drew Breunig

New technology doesn’t truly catch on until it’s used to make something better, not just smaller and cheaper.

Jul 1, 2024 AI STRATEGY Be Better, Not Smaller Most AI products are making a familiar mistake Nearly 20 years ago, in the pre-iPhone era, we were asked by a major mobile carrier to better position cellular internet. At the time, no one used data services on their phones. Phones that did connect to the web, didn’t give you a full browser. You connected to the WAP (Yes, that’s what it was called. Yes, I feel ancient ). The WAP was like reading the internet by peering through a keyhole. Content – mostly news, weather, stock prices, and sports scores – was presented as a list, in a mostly text for

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