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Det här är ju fortfarande min utombordshjärna (a.k.a. jag måste posta saker här för att komma ihåg dom), så jag citerar Dave Winer utförligt när han använder korallrevet som metafor för hur teknologisk utveckling sker:

Calling a technology a coral reef is the highest compliment I can pay.

Here's how the story goes. Scattered throughout tropical seas are coral reefs that started when a ship sank and sea creatures made it their home. Then the predators of those creatures started hanging out, and their predators, all the way up the food chain. Eventually, if the ocean climate was right, a coral reef would appear, much larger than the wrecked ship that started it all.

These days they deliberately sink ships where they want a coral reef.

It's a little sad for the ship, to be devoured this way. I know how it feels, Radio 8 is hardly used anymore, although I think it's a great piece of software, it got consumed in the flames of people who didn't like RSS, but despite their protests, the coral reef did show up, and now RSS has become a thriving ecosystem.

...bara så att jag ska komma ihåg det.