パソコン、インターネット、スマフォときて第四の時代「ソーシャル」がfacebookのIPOとともに幕開けだそう！

パソコン、インターネット、スマフォときて第四の時代「ソーシャル」がfacebookのIPOとともに幕開けだそう。

ちなみに記事によると、

Apple's IPO in 1980 kicked off the personal computer era. Apple's IPO kicked off the personal computing era, but the company blew its early lead. IBM launched its PC a little later, but it really took Microsoft to open the PC market to dozens of low-cost clones, crystalize the vision -- a computer on every desk and in every home -- and figure out that software, more than hardware, would drive adoption.

Netscape's IPO in 1995 launched the Internet era. Before Netscape, the Internet was a tool for academics and nerds. Six months after Netscape went public, the phrase "dot-com" started showing up in TV commercials, and dozens of eventual Internet giants -- from Yahoo to Amazon -- followed. Netscape eventually got crushed by Microsoft's decision to bundle Internet Explorer with Windows (as well as by its own missteps), but the dot-com era was no doubt the Netscape era.

The launch of the iPhone in 2007 began the mobile era. Palm, RIM, Microsoft and a few other companies had built combination phone-computers before 2007, but Apple took the concept and pushed it into the mainstream, with a lot of help from Google's fast-following Android and all its hardware partners. In a short five years, Microsoft has lost its monopoly on Internet-connected clients, everybody has an "app store," and (as William Gibson once pointed out), the silhouetted figure of a person checking a smartphone has replaced the cigarette smoker as the most common scene on a city street.

第一の時代は1980年に

アップルのIPOとともに個人向けコンピュータ（パソコン）の時代が始まり、

第二の時代は1995年に

ネットスケープのIPOとともにインターネットの時代が、

第三の時代は2007年に

iPhoneの発売とともにモバイル（スマフォ）時代が

んで

第四の時代は

FacebookのIPOとともにソーシャルの時代が幕開けだそう。

ちなみに時代が順に切り替わっているわけでなく、今でもすべて重なりながら拡大しているわけで、それを考えるとこれから始まる第四の波の社会への影響度の凄まじさがよく分かるなあ。

と言っても、この記事を鵜呑みにすればだけども。

まあここまで本当に大きな変革をフェイスブックが世の中に与えられるのかはともかく、あり得なくはないところにこの分野（プラットフォーム）のポテンシャルを感じるし、この分野で今までにない新しい価値（ベターな社会）を作り出したいですね。

ではまた。

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