The longer a technology has been around, the longer it’s likely to stay around. This is a consequence of the Lindy effect. Nassim Taleb describes this effect in Antifragile but doesn’t provide much mathematical detail. Here I’ll fill in some detail. Taleb, following Mandelbrot, says that the lifetimes of intellectual artifacts follow a power law … Continue reading The Lindy effect
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