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Amara's Law

Nov 16, 2023

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Amara's Law

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There's a quote from futurist Roy Amara—who among other things ran a think-tank called the Institute for the Future, for a spell—that has since become an adage within the tech world that goes something like this: "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

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