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Dear Michael: An Open Letter From The Present About The Future Of Your Past

San Francisco, CA

21st January 2011

Dear Michael Moore-Jones, I just finished reading your thought-provoking post - “A Future Without Personal History” - over at ReadWriteWeb and felt compelled to write you this note. I was particularly taken by your concern that your entire generation will grow up without ever having written and mailed a letter, and as such will leave no permanent record of your lives. Hell, you know you’re getting old when someone fifteen years younger than you is bitching about the state of the modern world. Still, yours was an argument well presented; certainly better than I could have managed at the age of sixteen. And I was with you all the way. Or at least all the way up to your conclusion where you suggested a solution to the problem of ensuring a sustainable record of your life: “copying and pasting communication from all different formats into different documents stored both on hard drive and in the cloud." It's on that point we part company.

Dear Michael: An Open Letter From The Present About The Future Of Your Past

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The Present And The Future

Howard Lindzon has been asking people to think about The Next Ten Years. He says:

Few of us are thinking of the next TEN years. It’s hard not to get excited and short term distracted with Twitter, Groupon and Facebook adding billions in value as private companies in just a few years.

Thinking about the future is what VCs and entrepreneurs must be doing. Focusing on what is working now is not the way to join that billion dollar club in the future.

Last week I wrote a post about mobile OS market share and where developers should be focusing. It generated a great discussion in the comments and led to a number of posts in the blogs and traditional media. Many of those who disagreed with my conclusions focused on what is working in iOS today. And my counter to them is what is going on today will not be going on a year from now and certainly not five years from now.

If there is any certainty in the tech business, it is things are going to change. What we should all be doing is thinking about how those changes will develop, what forces are at work, and what new directions things will head in.

This blog is a big part of how I do that kind of thinking. And I am not the only VC who is thinking out loud. Mark Suster wrote a great post this past week where he lays out his vision of how the cloud stack is getting built out. Maybe Mark is right and maybe he is wrong. Maybe I am right about Android and iOS and maybe I am wrong.

The most important thing is that we are all thinking about where things are going and making bets about the future. Because betting that things will stay the same is a bad bet. I am sure of that.

This post originally appeared at A VC and is republished with permission.

 

 

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The Present And The Future

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OpenGeo's Ken Bossung to Present This Evening at the WebMapSocial Meetup on Geo In the Cloud

Mr. Bossung Discusses GeoNode, OpenGeo's New Web-based Tool for Collaborative SDIs, and Its Cloud Deployment

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