Hackathons are a fundamentally unsustainable, bad idea that can only thrive on young people having more energy than they know what to do with. I imagine they'l

Hackathons are a fundamentally unsustainable, bad idea that can only thrive on young people having more energy than they know what to do with. I imagine they'll continue to drag along, like most conferences, like most people, who just don't know what else to do, so they do something that someone else said was a good idea and isn't intimidating.