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But maybe this has been the trend for a while? Ten years ago Steve Jobs was pushing the Mac as a "digital hub for your life" and not much has changed since then

But maybe this has been the trend for a while? Ten years ago Steve Jobs was pushing the Mac as a "digital hub for your life" and not much has changed since then. I don't just blame the box but everything around it: The speed most people experience the internet at hasn't changed that much, chips use less energy but the speed increases aren't enough to notice a real difference, etc.

vy8vWJlco 14y ago
Yup. Not much has changed in a decade. Software developers have been playing nice (to hardware manufacturers and existing information-oriented institutions), developing mostly low-resource web-apps that comply with social expectations and kowtow to imaginary property. Distributed hash tables were the one of the last real disruptive practical innovations in software and they are not being applied to everything they could (DNS, NAT-traversal, IPv6 transition, mutlicast, anonymity) largely out of fear of waking the baby.