[rektide]

This is an interesting angle. I don't know how I feel about it in net, but I definitely agree that there's been huge brain-drain to the very big. It's been enormously hard to make new things happen when the old titans pay so damned much.

I guess I'd still hoped there was lots of smaller stuff happening but I'm tending to think you're right that there's a new net scarcity of computing efforts. And many of the efforts we do see are all business to business, as that tends to be an easier way of making money, but it again rarely contributes to the greater computing pool, doesn't meaningfully change most people's relation with technology.