I think the general thrust of the article, that CS innovation is harder and less prolific than 1996 is generally true. I think it's a lot more nuanced than in t

I think the general thrust of the article, that CS innovation is harder and less prolific than 1996 is generally true. I think it's a lot more nuanced than in the article though. Something not mentioned is that CS (and every field) has gotten larger with time, and the frontier for new discoveries and improvements is getting farther and farther away. Another thing is that while there aren't a lot of fundementally new things, much of our technological progress in the past 100 years is refinement on established things. > We’ve just lost the will to improve. That statement strikes me as a little to broad. We are less risky in our persuit of improvement is true, but I wouldn't say that we've lost it.