Not only that, even if you only consider new needs as being in the entertainment sector (games, social networks, movies, etc.) there's the fact that attention i

Not only that, even if you only consider new needs as being in the entertainment sector (games, social networks, movies, etc.) there's the fact that attention is a limited resource: there's only so much minutes a person can dedicate in a day to apps and content. Even if everyone would start producing content, we'd face a situation where everyone is in competition with everyone else for users' attention, which is what is already happening in a smaller scale with the big names of the web and mobile. "But with that access, with those tools in the hands of billions, it is hard to believe that the result will not be a widespread global unleashing of creativity, productivity, and human potential. It is hard to believe that people will get these capabilities and then come up with … absolutely nothing useful to do with them?" This is an assumption that is, simply put, false. We have had the tools to do amazing things for a long time but we haven't done nothing amazing with them, we just adapted them to our existing realities. Technology didn't revolutionize our lives, it was slowly integrated into them and adapted to our previous lifestyles. Maybe the author should read this piece to get a dose of reality: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140110-technologys-greatest-myth http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140110-technologys-greates...