No More Next Big Thing?

CthuluOverlord writes "CNET News.com is reporting that Nicholas Donofrio, Big Blue's executive vice president of innovation and technology, made a declaration on Tuesday in an interview with ZDNet Asia. 'The fact is that innovation was a little different in the 20th century. It's not easy (now) to come up with greater and different things. If you're looking for the next big thing, stop looking. There's no such thing as the next big thing.'" Donofrio goes on to explain that he sees innovation as being services or social changes nowadays, rather than simply a better moustrap. What's the verdict? Is tech innovation dead?

Comments

Re:People said the same thing 100 years ago...

[TubeSteak]

Would it be flamebait if someone told him "STFU n00b"?

Re:WTF!?

[XMilkProject]

Sheesh, Everyone knows that Christians will destroy BioTech before anything useful comes to fruition.

From Cradle to Grave Robbers

[Doc Ruby]

We're just seeing the whining of the ever-narcissistic Baby Boomers turning old and decrepit. Just like they act like they invented fun in the 1950s, they're acting like creativity is dying along with their own will to create.

Of course, theirs will become the conventional wisdom. Because the corporate media has incubated them from before conception to cashing in their life insurance. The truth doesn't matter, just the ease of marketing to Baby Boomers; fools ever easily separated from money, as long as the "truth" is "as seen on TV(TM)".

The rest of us will carry on without them, as we did before, during and after their blight on demographic marketing.

Re: Yes Next Thing

[x2A]

The same source I trust for everything else that I believe that I know. My brain

Your brain is the source of the information? So you made it up yourself?

Of course, just because Bill says he didn't say it, doesn't mean anything

No, but you can't even tell me who said he did say it, apart from your own brain, which means even less.

Gates has always had big ideas for pc's... people laughed at him when he said 'one day, there'll be a computer in every home'. When he saw things becoming that big, i fail to believe that he would have been so short sighted when it came to memory, especially when he was pushing IBM to use processors with a wider address space.

It's still a perfect example of a popularly believed short-sighted quote

I consider the truth to be more important than popular belief, to the extent that I would say it's a completely flawed example of a short-sighted quote... unless of cause you preface it by saying "imagine if someone had said", rather than (intended or otherwise) perpetuating a myth.