| > And I’m honestly hungry for some revolution here Nicely put. Yes, I think there is room for a lot of innovation yet in many areas: OS design, programming language design, input devices, GUIs, and much more besides. Saying that, when implemented well, there's a lot of stuff that's pretty good. I think one aspect that's neglected is that yes, some tech we all use is very old and legacy-inspired. But often, it's not that we use some ancient thing because it's ancient and it hasn't changed. It's because it had lots of competitors but it beat them all. For instance, QWERTY. Yes it is very old and yes it came from typewriters. But I own 2 computers with ABCDEF GHIJKL MNOPQR STUVWX YZ ... layouts. There are also QWERTZ and AZERTY used by millions. Dvorak failed to its inventors' deep misery. (No, not Dvořák, although Dvorak was a descendant of Dvořák.) There have been tonnes of others tried. The survivors are the ones that beat out the competition. And in some instances, the competition survives and does OK in its little niche, and that is fine, too... |