I tend to agree that the recent focus on web technology has retarded the pace of actual innovation in the last decade. The smart people who should be building t

I tend to agree that the recent focus on web technology has retarded the pace of actual innovation in the last decade. The smart people who should be building the jetpacks and curing cancer are making pets.com, or, no offense, founding YC startups to make a webapp to market your new webapp to other people's webapps on the web. Cf. Warren Ellis: "a nice robot phone is not an acceptable substitute for a future." http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2010/05/start/warren-ellis?page=all http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2010/05/start/...