[ZenoArrow]

> "I think it's harder now for someone to say, let's do things completely differently. Everybody nowadays is all about incremental changes."

There is room for radical change, but you have to know how to make your own space for it.

To give an example, I think the opportunities for reconfigurable computing are huge, and that we've barely scratched the surface. However, building a whole new platform based on that idea doesn't make practical sense (at least, not yet). What would be best is to sneak it in the back door. For example, design a new open-source FPGA-based sound card. That way, you can get reconfigurable chips into people's computers. After you've got a decent install base, you can expand into new uses for those chips, similar to how GPGPU expanded the utility of GPUs.