There is a feedback aspect that this article does not seem to get. > After all, the material hasn't changed (much), so if the calculators were good enough for

There is a feedback aspect that this article does not seem to get. > After all, the material hasn't changed (much), so if the calculators were good enough for us 10 or 15 years ago, they are still good enough to solve the math problems. Technology changes the material: it changes what you think you need or want. You could almost say dialup internet was fine for viewing text web-pages -- why does it need to be faster? Broadband enabled web video -- which in turn spurred the need for broadband. The calculator example looks a bit like a phone. If you took a phone from 2000 and one from 2007, they would look pretty similar. It is still a phone, is it not? We do not need something more, do we? And then the iPhone appeared. > Here's the thing. Some technologies don't change all that quickly because we don't need them to. . . . Look at cars or power plants Crikey! If you wanted to hit on two of the things we do most need to change, and have for decades, it might well be just those. The whole article disturbs me a bit, actually, because it seems dangerously full of the anti/un-creative mindset. You will never invent anything if you just look at what you have and think of justifications for why everything is pretty much fine. You create by finding faults and imagining what you do not have. Look at those two calculator pics, and think of them as representing some part of the web now and in 2021. Scary? Well that is what it will be unless you get irritated and make some weird unexpected new stuff!