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Dvorak Looks Back At 'Another Crappy Tech Year'
twitter writes "The Vista Death Watch is PC Magazine's most popular column. That is just one of many items in Dvorak's review of yet another 'disappointing' year in Technology. 'I was not a fan of 2007. It was another crappy tech year--just the latest in a string of bad years dating back to 2000. Let's see some of the highlights and lowlights in no particular order ... The whopper for Intel, though, was its Viiv initiative, which was a dog from the get-go and was dropped--finally. Somewhere along the way, Intel bought into the Silicon Valley crock that CPUs were not important any more. What a laugh. Luckily for the company, it refocused on processor chips and found itself in the driver's seat once again. Of course, Intel will fall off the path again, of that you can be sure.'"
Honestly, there's a huge amount of really interesting technology and science out there, more so even than I was a kid in the 80s. It's just that you've got to focus where the developments are happening. The OS world is largely dead in terms of innovation. What we do get from them is pretty consistent bloat, very little of which is actually new, and none of which is more useful than what we had.
Medical technology has made amazing strides in the last 10 years or so. Cryosurgery, Sequencing a human Genome, stem cell results, bacteriophage treatments for infections, using said treatment to limit the amount of e. coli on beef in the US, the ability to operate within a human heart without having to open up the chest, the continued rise of digital X-rays in hospitals, the realization that sleep is primarily regulated by 1 single molecule and the discovery of a method for converting all blood donations into 0- from whatever they were previously.
And that really isn't everything. Any one of those things is of more significance than the moon landing was. Even the space research that we have NASA scientists do is far more important than the moon ever was, the only reason why we think of the moon at all, was that we beat the Russians at the race from the earth to the moon, and key to it, back home safely. Apart from that, it really didn't contribute that much to scientific research in general.