“Up until that point, you poked, you prodded, you bumped, you did all this stuff, but nothing flowed, nothing was animated, nothing was alive, nothing flew. You didn’t caress, you didn’t stroke, you didn’t fondle. You just push. You poke, poke, poke, and it went blip, flip, flip. Things jumped; they didn’t flow.” Apple made multitouch flow, but they didn’t create it. And here’s why that matters: Collectives, teams, multiple inventors, build on a shared history. That’s how a core, universally adopted technology emerges—in this case, by way of boundary-pushing musical experimenters; smart,
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