Welcome to Silicon Valley. Read most interviews with startup founders and the "visionaries", and you'll find plenty of that kind of rhetoric. "industry X is com

Welcome to Silicon Valley. Read most interviews with startup founders and the "visionaries", and you'll find plenty of that kind of rhetoric. "industry X is completely outdated", "product Y is absolutely worthless", etc. when industry X and product Y typically have the merits of 1) existing for more than 12 months before being acquired by $MEGACORP and 2) being of use to more people than the few lucky San Francisco residents with high Twitter follower counts that were accepted in the startup's private beta. I was talking with a San Francisco teacher last week who was telling me about all the different partnerships her school has done with startups, and how they all had 2 things in common: they only added more work for the teachers without providing much benefits, and they thought they knew better than anyone. Nothing to see here. To quote Torvalds, "talk is cheap, show me the code".