Re:2013 was a lost year for tech
by michaelochurch on Thursday December 26, 2013 @02:40PM
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Let's hold off on the proclamations about 2013 being a dead year for breakthroughs.
The truth about technology is that "breakthroughs" are backed by a long, mostly invisible, period of hard work.
Has it been a "lost year" for technology? No, because millions of people have gone to work, built things, learned stuff, and there's a little more value in the world than there was before. Has it been a terrible year in terms of the high-profile idiocy that occurs, without fail, when the wrong sorts of people get into technology's upper echelons? Absolutely. But that's a cyclical phenomenon and doesn't really make the case for a year that has been completely wasted, any more than winter is a waste of time.
Let's hold off on the proclamations about 2013 being a dead year for breakthroughs. It's entirely plausible the biggest breakthrough for 2013 still isn't widely known. Some products require scale before it becomes overly apparent the dramatic impact they're going to have, and or before network effects take hold that said product may require to truly kick into another gear.