> Despite how inexpensive, powerful, and ubiquitous computers have become, very few of the ideas floating around in technology today are better than the ideas from half a century ago, and quite a few are quite a bit worse.

Stand-out line from a fantastic essay. There are so many fruit to harvest that only now seem low-hanging because the hardware has gotten better. See: RNNs, for example. There has been a lot of thought about how the future could look; it's worth paying attention to it.