Comments on: Where have our dreams gone? http://www.techleader.co.za/woganmay/2010/05/20/where-have-our-dreams-gone/ Mon, 21 May 2012 20:31:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: whalewatcher http://www.techleader.co.za/woganmay/2010/05/20/where-have-our-dreams-gone/#comment-26510 whalewatcher Mon, 31 May 2010 04:20:19 +0000 http://www.techleader.co.za/woganmay/2010/05/20/where-have-our-dreams-gone/#comment-26510 Antonin Artaud said in the mid-50s: "The twentieth century dreams of progress, but this progress is only material and mechanical. The human race has not been improved. On the contrary." Antonin Artaud said in the mid-50s:
“The twentieth century dreams of progress, but this progress is only material and mechanical. The human race has not been improved. On the contrary.”

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]]> By: Patrick http://www.techleader.co.za/woganmay/2010/05/20/where-have-our-dreams-gone/#comment-26509 Patrick Sun, 30 May 2010 16:45:02 +0000 http://www.techleader.co.za/woganmay/2010/05/20/where-have-our-dreams-gone/#comment-26509 Very good article. Below linked article may shed some light on lack of progress. http://calderup.wordpress.com/2010/05/06/why-is-science-so-sloooow/ Very good article.

Below linked article may shed some light
on lack of progress.

http://calderup.wordpress.com/2010/05/06/why-is-science-so-sloooow/

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]]> By: Wogan http://www.techleader.co.za/woganmay/2010/05/20/where-have-our-dreams-gone/#comment-26507 Wogan Wed, 26 May 2010 07:37:39 +0000 http://www.techleader.co.za/woganmay/2010/05/20/where-have-our-dreams-gone/#comment-26507 @Minnaar As much as we'd like it to not come from the big corporations, the sad truth is that they're the only ones who can afford to buy out so many experts in so many fields. And then they force out the lowest common denominator of what they're capable of. Windows Vista, for instance. The development took so damn long because there were thousands of programmers working on hundreds of individual parts of the system, and a commit from a ground-level coder could take up to THREE MONTHS to reach the central repository. Why? Middle managers and marketers and UI "experts" who were all more concerned with keeping in line (and keeping their jobs) than pushing the envelope. And so what could have been a system ahead of its time instead came a few years late. It seems that the only places that give people the sort of funding and free will that drove development during the Cold War to dizzying new heights happens in secret government agencies and private labs. Of which there are painfully few. So no, I'm completely expecting the next few big things to come from big tech players. And I'm equally expecting to be disappointed. ~ Wogan @Minnaar As much as we’d like it to not come from the big corporations, the sad truth is that they’re the only ones who can afford to buy out so many experts in so many fields. And then they force out the lowest common denominator of what they’re capable of.

Windows Vista, for instance. The development took so damn long because there were thousands of programmers working on hundreds of individual parts of the system, and a commit from a ground-level coder could take up to THREE MONTHS to reach the central repository.

Why? Middle managers and marketers and UI “experts” who were all more concerned with keeping in line (and keeping their jobs) than pushing the envelope. And so what could have been a system ahead of its time instead came a few years late.

It seems that the only places that give people the sort of funding and free will that drove development during the Cold War to dizzying new heights happens in secret government agencies and private labs. Of which there are painfully few.

So no, I’m completely expecting the next few big things to come from big tech players. And I’m equally expecting to be disappointed.

~ Wogan

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]]> By: Minnaar Pieters http://www.techleader.co.za/woganmay/2010/05/20/where-have-our-dreams-gone/#comment-26506 Minnaar Pieters Mon, 24 May 2010 08:14:38 +0000 http://www.techleader.co.za/woganmay/2010/05/20/where-have-our-dreams-gone/#comment-26506 Very good point... Liked your comment of one box sending a signal to another box. We do get excited by silly things these days. The last time I really got excited by a piece of technology was the first iPhone - it was a small step forward to that Minority Report type interface of things just gliding around on screen. I am patiently waiting for the next cool release by someone that gives an "aha!" moment. And hopefully it doesnt come from the MS, Apple, Google players. Very good point…

Liked your comment of one box sending a signal to another box. We do get excited by silly things these days.

The last time I really got excited by a piece of technology was the first iPhone - it was a small step forward to that Minority Report type interface of things just gliding around on screen.

I am patiently waiting for the next cool release by someone that gives an “aha!” moment. And hopefully it doesnt come from the MS, Apple, Google players.

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