Ah this explains the disconnect. I see the "Web 2.0" era as closer to the frontier than Quake 3 (as cutting-edge as it was in its day). In the era of Flickr, a

Ah this explains the disconnect. I see the "Web 2.0" era as closer to the frontier than Quake 3 (as cutting-edge as it was in its day). In the era of Flickr, a young group of devs with no resources would have had a tough go at it in 3D gaming and would have been better off making Flash games. I can't say much about if and when we're worse at everything than AI, but we're not there yet. At least for now, there are still new opportunities just as open to aspiring techies now as web apps were 15 years ago or PC games were 30 years ago.