Charming, feel-good piece for all the devs in the room, I'm sure.
But here are some other things to think about.
The availability of this cheap, ubiquitous networking technology is intimately linked to the availability of extraordinarily cheap energy from carbon-based fuels as well as cheap manufacturing in various emerging markets. How many more years of that do we have? Let's not forget too that the planet keeps warming up in spite of us.
Next, there are plenty of folks out there who seem keen on changing this giant network into a tiered shopping-plex. All of this optimism about the future is implicitly dependent on a neutral network. Is there anyone on this forum who isn't gravely concerned about the damage that will be done to free enterprise if network neutrality (in the most generic sense) is lost?
Finally, there is a solution space to consider here. All of the incredible dev that has been possibly in the last few years has been made possible because the barriers to entry have been brought down by things like online tutorials, IDEs, high-level languages, and object-oriented frameworks. It might be the case that there are is a limiting number of interesting problems that can be solved without the need for more complex technical work, which might proceed at a far slower pace than we've becoming accustomed to.
But here are some other things to think about.
The availability of this cheap, ubiquitous networking technology is intimately linked to the availability of extraordinarily cheap energy from carbon-based fuels as well as cheap manufacturing in various emerging markets. How many more years of that do we have? Let's not forget too that the planet keeps warming up in spite of us.
Next, there are plenty of folks out there who seem keen on changing this giant network into a tiered shopping-plex. All of this optimism about the future is implicitly dependent on a neutral network. Is there anyone on this forum who isn't gravely concerned about the damage that will be done to free enterprise if network neutrality (in the most generic sense) is lost?
Finally, there is a solution space to consider here. All of the incredible dev that has been possibly in the last few years has been made possible because the barriers to entry have been brought down by things like online tutorials, IDEs, high-level languages, and object-oriented frameworks. It might be the case that there are is a limiting number of interesting problems that can be solved without the need for more complex technical work, which might proceed at a far slower pace than we've becoming accustomed to.