Original post said nothing, not nothing meaningful. I can’t disagree with “nothing meaningful” because it’s subjective. Also, innovation isn’t just about the thing that work:
Thomas Edison, an American inventor who invented the lightbulb in the early 1900s once said:
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
I don’t know. Apple watches are pretty neat. Chip design and performance has gotten better over the last decade, although it’s harder to program in parallel than scalar. There’s been a tremendous development of web tools and frameworks, recapitulating in a way the Xserver environment.
And we don’t know what fiddly bit of academic or hacker software will turn out to be new and exciting. Or which hardware startup will deliver its promise. And ai/ml development, while not new, has become far more significant even concerning. And I assume you’re limiting the discussion to the computer biz as biotech/pharma has continued to do its thing as before.
Aside from the mba’s, it’s not the things you mention that are the problem. It’s the vc’s and their money. Selling ads, harvesting data and “social media” have consumed the talents of gobs of developers. And to what end? Complain about how the last decade has eroded privacy and increased corporate and government power and you’d have a better argument.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 26.1 ms ] threadOn March 28, 2016, the first consumer version of Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift "CV1", was released.
Rivians just started shipping.
Electric scooters
“Hoverboards”
Those rent a bike kiosks seem pretty recent
Full-Self-Driving beta today.
Scooters are neither new nor innovative. They’ve just been monetized. on the verge of being banned in France, while Bird’s market cap is $50.
A rent a bike kiosk is a technical innovation?
The Oculus Rift was a great MVP that fleeced Zuckerberg for $3B and is now potentially killing Facebook. No one actually uses these things.
Nothing meaningful has been built since 2010.
Original post said nothing, not nothing meaningful. I can’t disagree with “nothing meaningful” because it’s subjective. Also, innovation isn’t just about the thing that work:
Thomas Edison, an American inventor who invented the lightbulb in the early 1900s once said:
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
And we don’t know what fiddly bit of academic or hacker software will turn out to be new and exciting. Or which hardware startup will deliver its promise. And ai/ml development, while not new, has become far more significant even concerning. And I assume you’re limiting the discussion to the computer biz as biotech/pharma has continued to do its thing as before.
Aside from the mba’s, it’s not the things you mention that are the problem. It’s the vc’s and their money. Selling ads, harvesting data and “social media” have consumed the talents of gobs of developers. And to what end? Complain about how the last decade has eroded privacy and increased corporate and government power and you’d have a better argument.
https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/159527086740295680...
I see this a lot from engineers in real life too.