Alan Kay famously asked if there was any new invention in computing since 1980 (and the answer was essentially 'no'): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922

Alan Kay famously asked if there was any new invention in computing since 1980 (and the answer was essentially 'no'): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922/significant-new-inventions-in-computing-since-1980 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922/significant-new-in... Our whole industry got sucked into making a fortune and now suffers (ironically) from "The Innovator's Dilemma". We have more money than Croesus now, but at the expense of any real progress.