I spent 5 years building a company in this space in the 90's, and eventually gave up. I know people still in the space, true believers of a sort I could not emu

I spent 5 years building a company in this space in the 90's, and eventually gave up. I know people still in the space, true believers of a sort I could not emulate (having people working for you focuses the mind on actually making money pretty well, at least for me). I stayed out of this cycle because honestly it doesn't look to me like anything significant has changed. Yes, the technology is better, but fundamentally the problem is not the technology, it's the applications and the fact that a significant portion of consumers only spend time in front of a powerful computer at work (and many don't even do that anymore). One more generation of hardware might get us there, if we can somehow keep Moore's law going.