Point of View: The New New thing
Faris YakobGenius Steals
The New New Thing is a silicon valley idea, enshrined in a fantastic eponymous book by Michael Lewis. The deceptive thing about the future is that it always feels like it's just about to happen – but never does. Not just in the obvious, inevitable, Zen sense. More in the version painted by the philosopher Alan Watts, that the story of life as an endless narrative of progress is ultimately a hoax. It's not that progress doesn't occur – that part is inevitable; change is growth and change is...