> For almost half a century now, we haven't really managed to come up with something better, and that's not for lack of trying. In contrast, my impression is t

> For almost half a century now, we haven't really managed to come up with something better, and that's not for lack of trying. In contrast, my impression is that deprioritization of trying is a defining characteristic. Patents - "yeah it's neat... you can't sell/buy/have/buildon anything like it". Narrowing optimization - "thinkpad is 2-key rollover, because business apps don't use 3, and it saves some cents". Software design-space badlands - "to tweak that, reimplement the full stack and apps". Unicorn dreams - "mass-market or nothing... most often nothing". So instead of a rich ferment of DIY and multi-scale commercial exploring for diverse viable niches, we have an innovation monoculture desert of "wait years for bigco to maybe find incredibly-challenging mass-market fit and afterward backfill niches". So a "we can't sell it because patents so here's a kit"-crippled but still creative AR/VR DIY community hits "Facebook bought Oculus for how much!?!" unicorn dreams and dies. So... etc.