> But that's exactly what we are doing. What do you think iPhones and iPads are? Those startups that are making it easier to book holidays? The very thing they

> But that's exactly what we are doing. What do you think iPhones and iPads are? Those startups that are making it easier to book holidays? The very thing they are doing is making technology available to everyone. so, yes, they make technology available to everyone. but in my opinion the problem is something else: we still think in representations invented for the medium of paper. we still code in text files, we still read pdfs/ebooks page by page, and your mom still can't send you that thing over the internet. with all these beautiful devices we have, it kinda makes me sad to see what potential we are missing out. you may have heard of this beautiful research project "sketchpad" by ivan sutherland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad), which plays with direct manipulation of data. they even managed to plan a bridge with it. not that i am saying everyone should be able to build bridges, but you see where this is going. i very much recommend to watch both talks by bret victor: the future of programming - http://worrydream.com/dbx/ http://worrydream.com/dbx/ media for thinking the unthinkable - http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/ http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/ > There seems to be the idea that it's possible to leapfrog all of this hard, technical stuff and let everyone do it no, of course not. we always build on the shoulder of giants. but i hope you agree that we can do better than what we are currently doing. ryan, thanks for your comment.