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I had a chairman during the first dot-com bubble who would carry around a copy of 'Blown to Bits'[1] and read from it like it was his bible.

It is the earliest source, that I know of, of the theory that software and the web will destroy every other industry - and it was from the mid-90s (the HBR article was).

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Blown-Bits-Economics-Information-Trans...




The original source as far as I know is Buckminster Fuller: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeralization.




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