Shouldn't this have been written in 2000? >‘We used to build the future,’ Leslie Parks, who formerly directed redevelopment efforts in San Jose, once told me.

Shouldn't this have been written in 2000? >‘We used to build the future,’ Leslie Parks, who formerly directed redevelopment efforts in San Jose, once told me. ‘Then we designed it, now we just think about it.’ Please give the builders the credit they deserve for thinking and designing, too. It's more like: We used to think about, design, and build the future, then we thought about and designed it, now we just think about it. I went to a "Hackers & Founders" meet-up once, and somebody sat down across from me and asked "Are you a developer, or an idea guy?" I answered, "I'm a developer, but I like to think of myself as capable of coming up with ideas too." Ideas are the easy part. There are a lot of people who fancy themselves "idea guys", with no development or design skills, who desperately want to find some developers to implement their precious ideas for free or cheap on the promise of equity and visibility, and they insist you sign an NDA before they tell you their unique snowflake of an idea, because they don't realize ideas are a dime a dozen, everybody has lots and lots of them, it's easy to come up with them, the hard part is actually sorting through the bad ones and implementing the good times, and lots of ideas are actually a net negative distraction from sticking to working on one good idea for as long as it takes to follow through and implement it well.