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This is why people like Elon Musk are completely mischaracterized as innovators and leaders of the tech scene. Today's tech-bros go for the most obvious nerd-b

This is why people like Elon Musk are completely mischaracterized as innovators and leaders of the tech scene. Today's tech-bros go for the most obvious nerd-bait, like electric cars, rockets, and solar panels. This is stuff that, if you asked any tech-bro today, or 20 years ago, what would impress them, they would answer with that obvious stuff. Meanwhile, the ACTUAL world-changing innovations are things like pinch-to-zoom and momentum scroll - stuff that you actually initially had to argue with the tech-bros about - "why do we need that?" - but becomes obvious only after-the-fact. Innovation is what your grandmother recognizes as innovative, not what the technologists recognize as innovative.

kbart 9y ago
What? Do you honestly think that pinch-to-zoom is more world changing invention than solar panels? I could totally live without pinch-to-zoom or even momentum scroll, but I doubt we, society as we know it, would survive very long without clean and renewable energy sources.
- mozumder 9y ago
  > What? Do you honestly think that pinch-to-zoom is more world changing invention than solar panels? Yes. > I could totally live without pinch-to-zoom or even momentum scroll, but I doubt we, society as we know it, would survive very long without clean and renewable energy sources. You can live without solar panels. You likely do. Meanwhile, you became far more productive because of UX.
  - kbart 9y ago
    I still use keyboard and mouse for development purposes, so neither of your example has any impact on my productivity. Meanwhile, few percentage of my country's energy is generated by solar power (combined with wind and other renewables, that's enough to replace an old and potentially unsafe nuclear power plant, which is not a small feat) and I personally operate few panels in my summer house (and regularly keep adding more as they become cheaper and more efficient).

kbart 9y ago

What? Do you honestly think that pinch-to-zoom is more world changing invention than solar panels? I could totally live without pinch-to-zoom or even momentum scroll, but I doubt we, society as we know it, would survive very long without clean and renewable energy sources.

mozumder 9y ago
> What? Do you honestly think that pinch-to-zoom is more world changing invention than solar panels? Yes. > I could totally live without pinch-to-zoom or even momentum scroll, but I doubt we, society as we know it, would survive very long without clean and renewable energy sources. You can live without solar panels. You likely do. Meanwhile, you became far more productive because of UX.
- kbart 9y ago
  I still use keyboard and mouse for development purposes, so neither of your example has any impact on my productivity. Meanwhile, few percentage of my country's energy is generated by solar power (combined with wind and other renewables, that's enough to replace an old and potentially unsafe nuclear power plant, which is not a small feat) and I personally operate few panels in my summer house (and regularly keep adding more as they become cheaper and more efficient).