Thread by @swardley

X : Are there more stages of evolution on a map?
Me : Not that I found. It took six months of solid work, over 9k publications collect to find the four. This is what went into the cheat sheet. Why?
X : I think there are more.
Me : There might be.
X : What do you think to ...

Me : ... what do I think to? You're not going to just tell me you've named five? Can I repeat the bit about spending six months, working day and night, to build a case for four? Do you have any idea how much effort went into finding these labels?

Me : The collection of publications, the failed experiments with diffusion curves and other models, the frequency analysis of weak signals, the building of the graph between ubiquity and certainty?
X : Touchy?

Me : Well, at least try and put a bit more effort and justification into it. Go beyond the "I think there are more stages and here are some labels I made"

X : Well, I think there is a fifth stage where things die off.
Me : You do realise that vastly more things die off in genesis than ever make it to commodity? What tends to happen in commodity is things become abstracted away, they become invisible, hidden in other things.

X : Commodity is where the laggards are.
Me : Ok, now you're confusing diffusion with evolution. Viruses diffuse, they also evolve. It's not the same. Cloud is a more commodity form of compute than servers, back in 2006 the early adopters were using the more commodity form.