day 79
| digital darwinism 1: darwinian architecture |
Eye Candy #1: A Fairy-Tale House along
One of the pleasures of living in real-time in
Monterey, California, is spending time with the
weirdos of Carmel-by-the-sea. Voted the "Best
Art City in the World" by a group of
self-appointed snobs in Paris, France, Carmel
has become a target of architects,
opportunists, freeloaders, and swindlers. The
little city by the sea even out-snobs Paris --
it is considering refusing the French award,
because otherwise it might attract more
weirdos.
Drive, digitizing the Hans-and-Gretel houses
along the beach-side way. These houses
demonstrate what the computer world has had to
learn over the past 30 years - architects don't
know what they are doing anymore than ordinary
people.
digirati are like architecture, subject to the
whims of fashion, snobbery, and arrogance. This
is what I call "Digital Darwinism," the
principle that governs growth in the computer
industry. In the next few days I will show you
what I mean.
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