Though it's interesting, this guy has some serious flaws in his thinking. First off, measuring innovation per billions of people isn't very reliable, as a population can rapidly increase or decrease and this doesn't take into account the education level of the population.
The list of innovations he plotted is also debateable. I consider the development of Javascript a major innovation, but is that on the list? Think about the thousands and thousands software and hardware innovation that have been made. I don't think it's because they're "insignificant". If it may appear as though there are fewer innovations, that may be because you're looking in the wrong place. Many, many innovations are taking place as we speak, it's just highly specialized.
This guy is saying that we'll pretty soon invent everything and be done. This reminds me of a quote by the head of the USPO back in the turn of the century (wish I could find a link). He said that everything that could possibly be invented has been invented. This is obviously way, way off target. Huebner is on the same train of thought.
This is really just getting ridiculous now. Is there any type of software Microsoft won't touch? They need to be getting back to the basics of their buisness - Operating Systems. Maybe then they'd release Longhorn, With New Features! GASP!
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Though it's interesting, this guy has some serious flaws in his thinking. First off, measuring innovation per billions of people isn't very reliable, as a population can rapidly increase or decrease and this doesn't take into account the education level of the population. The list of innovations he plotted is also debateable. I consider the development of Javascript a major innovation, but is that on the list? Think about the thousands and thousands software and hardware innovation that have been made. I don't think it's because they're "insignificant". If it may appear as though there are fewer innovations, that may be because you're looking in the wrong place. Many, many innovations are taking place as we speak, it's just highly specialized. This guy is saying that we'll pretty soon invent everything and be done. This reminds me of a quote by the head of the USPO back in the turn of the century (wish I could find a link). He said that everything that could possibly be invented has been invented. This is obviously way, way off target. Huebner is on the same train of thought.
Not really sure if its the best solution, but just because it'd be so fooking cool, how about a 2.8 TB RAID array? This guy did it: http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.comp.hardware.pc -homebuilt/msg/f8479484a5254f5d?hl=en
I admit that I'm a lazy sod, but even I can be arsed enough to get out of my chair and go outside to see it!
This is really just getting ridiculous now. Is there any type of software Microsoft won't touch? They need to be getting back to the basics of their buisness - Operating Systems. Maybe then they'd release Longhorn, With New Features! GASP!