I'm sure there was plenty wrong with 1960s printing presses and the engineers working on them were looking forward to a radical overhaul of the technology, inst

I'm sure there was plenty wrong with 1960s printing presses and the engineers working on them were looking forward to a radical overhaul of the technology, instead of supporting a cruft of legacy technology that was holding them back from designing fancier machines and fancier papers. As we know, there indeed was a major overhaul in the way publishing works, just not in a way those engineers hoped for. I think the same is true for the web. It's not an engineer's paradise, but it does a good enough job for the people who are using it, it gets gradually better, and it will probably experience a radical overhauled at some point -- just not in a way any of us hoped for or could even imagine at this point.