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Re:How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global... by sah2ed on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @12:49PM (#13707421)
Thiel is not the only one to make that observation. Alan Kay has said something along those lines -- that there have been virtually no compelling inventions in computing for a while now [0][1].

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/q/432922/177696

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11941827

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Re:How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global... by kenjackson on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @04:10PM (#13709188)
What's "a while" and what is "compelling"?
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