Why Some Tech Succeeds and Others Fail: The Key Rules

You know how Newton's laws explain how things move? Well, technology also has its own rules, but for its rise and fall. After looking at thirteen successful tech trends, we've found three laws and five more rules to help understand why some tech sticks around while others disappear. The first law is like inertia – tech likes to stay the same unless something big happens. The second law is about change force – how much power is behind a new tech to make it successful. And the third law is like action and reaction – how the tech world responds to a new idea.

Here are the extra rules: measuring change force, understanding breakthroughs, dealing with monopolies, openness, and business opportunities. Let's take a look at these rules using the example of an open-source RISC-V processor. Also, we'll see how benchmarks help us figure out if a tech is on the rise or on its way out.

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