IMVHO it's not a matter of "we can integrate more creating a scaling effect" or "we have done too much, too intricacy" it's a matter of "basic technology" desig

IMVHO it's not a matter of "we can integrate more creating a scaling effect" or "we have done too much, too intricacy" it's a matter of "basic technology" designed for business purposes instead of whole society serving purpose. Try a modern car: it's a crapload of crapware crap. It's not because we have tried to integrate too much, automotive sector do not know IT, ... it's because modern cars are NOT designed for the human, formal owner, but as a service, a way to (ab)use the human owner to milk extra money. Similar thing happen with the cloud+mobile integration. The SOLE way IT works is an open ecosystem where ANYONE can see, change at any level, contribute and discuss, because IT it's not a layer of automation over something else (typically a mechanical/electrical thing) but a logic layer between humans and their own machines. Productivity fall because user freedom an power falls. Users now are just a mechanical arm of a crapware system to do the part the crapware system can't do alone. The systems is designed to milk money on them, not to serve them. If big of IT want real productivity MUST look back at their history: the more they abuse users the more short-term profits they elicit, than a fall. Or they came back to a FREE software, open hardware where they compete in features not in lock-in and crappy UIs/tools or they will be pushed aside as a generic commodity sooner or later eroded by some other sector who made more money them them (energy sector seems a candidate so far).