That, and the three listed points are undergirded by the fact that as Bitcoin is an unregulated currency, a networked system of monetary exchange, and store of financial value, you have to accept higher risks as compensation for the implied benefits of using the stuff.
To date, I've received 22 telephone calls & letters from irate readers, who tell me that they tried using the stuff for that purpose and discovered that when they stuck it under a table leg, it soiled the rug.
But if T for technology is the crucial issue, it suggests we'd better understand more about drivers of use - what we're likely to adopt, what we're likely to demand and how industries will adapt to new challenges - because how H for humans use the stuff is perhaps going to be as important as the technologies themselves.
But what's painful for Silicon Valley is beneficial for those who use the stuff it produces.
Mr. Raymer, who used to make mechanical, machine-driven pieces, had been installing Sheetrock for years before he realized he could use the stuff for his own work.
Microsoft didn't sabotage competing software -- I happen to be a Netscape surfer and a WordPerfect writer, and they work just fine in Windows -- but it did make sure that the easiest choice for consumers was to use the stuff bundled with Windows, and most people did just that.
Where can I buy good quantities of celery salt (say, 500g-1kg) – I use the stuff for several different seasonings.
You'd think the answer to that would be simple by now, with people having used the stuff for millennia.
I've used the stuff for everything from temporarily reattaching an automobile part to re-gluing acrylic fingernails.
That means that with any luck, huge swaths of the global Android community will be searching for stuff using the Google search app and seeing those deep-linked "Open in app" buttons when they've got the right apps installed.
