Not sure if this is exactly what your looking for.
Not too long ago I ran across this term "skewmorphism". It was a word Jobs used to talk about making computer programs resemble the real world.
When I heard the term though, it wasn't from Jobs. It was from a guy named Chris Dixon talking about how with new tech there is a tendency to think about how it can apply to the real world, the physical world.
His point was that sort of thinking is also a kind of skewmorphism and that really with new technology you should think internet first.
This really did change my perspective. I used to be kind of half in half out. Looking for a way to leverage technology back into the real world. But I always found that process rather slowed by buerocracy and so on.
I find that if you use the latest tech in tandem and focus your efforts purely on the domain of the internet you can go quite a bit faster than if you were trying to backport your progress into meatspace.
Make no mistake too, there are exclusively internet companies now. The most profitable ones still bridge the physical world though (Apple).
I was thinking more about examples of how people have changed their tech life. I appreciate your comment as I realised when thinking about the question I realised you can not separate tech and the internet in this modern world. So I get where you are coming from.
Not too long ago I ran across this term "skewmorphism". It was a word Jobs used to talk about making computer programs resemble the real world.
When I heard the term though, it wasn't from Jobs. It was from a guy named Chris Dixon talking about how with new tech there is a tendency to think about how it can apply to the real world, the physical world.
His point was that sort of thinking is also a kind of skewmorphism and that really with new technology you should think internet first.
This really did change my perspective. I used to be kind of half in half out. Looking for a way to leverage technology back into the real world. But I always found that process rather slowed by buerocracy and so on.
I find that if you use the latest tech in tandem and focus your efforts purely on the domain of the internet you can go quite a bit faster than if you were trying to backport your progress into meatspace.
Make no mistake too, there are exclusively internet companies now. The most profitable ones still bridge the physical world though (Apple).