Now there are several hundred incubators, each offering entrepreneurs some combination of office space, accounting and legal services, and other components of "instant corporate infrastructure".
The Republicans have built up a suite of sophisticated software that allows micro-targeting and instant feedback - infrastructure that Democrats jealously admit leaves them far behind in organisational terms.
Email and instant messaging drove infrastructure investment in the underlying network, but they also were networks themselves.
It is called at relevant instants from the infrastructure where the program is used.
Between its new mobile payments system, rapidly-scaling video infrastructure, and Instant Articles, Facebook's built a shiny set of new pipes to do just that.
In other words, the post-metropolitan condition of Detroit swings among the charm of ruins as the replacement of certain metropolitan materials with devices of instant artificial proximity (new immaterial infrastructures), and the harmony that urban life has found again in Detroit inhabiting unusual spaces and not necessarily fast.
Governments everywhere will try, by statute, to insert themselves electronically into cyber transactions (i.e. instant tax collection) or into the infrastructure itself (chip trapdoors).
As a result, Tunguz suggests, this will allow for the 'development of an infrastructure that allows for instant access' to the right data at the right time.
It also takes into account contemporary phenomena like megacities (urban areas with populations of more than 10 million) and instant cities (urban areas with an infrastructure erected in anticipation of a population, usually at the cusp of economic booms).
Polaroid also banked heavily on developing nations, deciding -- correctly at first -- that they lacked an infrastructure for processing film and would favor instant photography.
