> But I wonder whether this wave of startup innovation will look like a blip on the radar of normalcy in 50 years' time. Probably not even a blip really. It's

> But I wonder whether this wave of startup innovation will look like a blip on the radar of normalcy in 50 years' time. Probably not even a blip really. It's hard to imagine our unborn grandchildren caring about Twitter, Facebook, Dropbox, Heroku etc - and these are the top 0.00something% of startups that actually ended up mattering at all. The good news is we get to enjoy this era when all you need is luck and a mildly interesting spin on crud database operations, solving problems that are not exciting enough to exist in future decades.