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> we have power over & can shape & share

This is where She's being way too optimistic.

What we have now is software that looks like macdonalds.

She thinks the tools we have are going to enable home cooking. Software is way harder than that.

The step between is "local" restaurants. You dont need to build software for 8 billion people, or 300 million Americans. You can build for a region, or a niche group.

> It allows more. It allows soul.

You might not be old enough to remember zine's but they were a thing. We're about to have the software equivalent.




> What we have now is software that looks like macdonalds.

What we have now is often software that looks like a food hall: it has to contain all the features that anyone interested in some general area of functionality might want.

She thinks that sometimes it's going to be good to just cook up a Thai meal because that's all you actually need/want right now.




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