oh man, do i ever not agree with that. i was around for the birth of the microcomputer, and those were very interesting days indeed. here's somebody else who t

oh man, do i ever not agree with that. i was around for the birth of the microcomputer, and those were very interesting days indeed. here's somebody else who thinks so as well: "[...] But I think that there will be a good long period of cheerful chaos, just as there was in the early days of microcomputers. That was a good time for startups. Lots of small companies flourished, and did it by making cool things." http://www.paulgraham.com/road.html http://www.paulgraham.com/road.html as the micro situation "stabilized," with most of the competitors going out of business, the fun went with them. the darkest period in the days of high-tech was when microsoft so thoroughly dominated everything that they were stifling innovation.