For both the internet, and the industry as a whole, I get jaded about how quickly we move on, without stopping to see if we really explored one "branch" to the

For both the internet, and the industry as a whole, I get jaded about how quickly we move on, without stopping to see if we really explored one "branch" to the extend it deserves. We have moved too quickly during the last 30 years, and we're still not providing better solutions to our users. Not by a lot at least. The IT industry is more focused on solving the problems that we've created for ourself, rather than providing better solution. I don't care about machine learning, data mining/science, social media, Kubernetes or scaling to 500 million users. Most problems can be solve easier and better with less. It's cool that we can do these things, but they get in the way of creating actual solution in most cases. Oracle makes hardware that allows you to run global businesses or infrastructure for small nations on a 2U server. People seem more interested in running a global marketing platform that will handle the scale of Black Friday, because god forbid that you couldn't tracking customers once a year. Could we please focus on making good solutions to actual problems? Utilize the resources we already have? Most days I feel like most of my tasks could be solved just as well using 20 year old Unix tools.