Could be a liminal phase between major new platforms. Something similar happened in the early 2000s - desktop PCs were perfected, smartphones and cloud hadn't appeared yet, suddenly VCs were investing in things like "cleantech".
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Maybe it's VR, maybe it's blockchain, maybe it's more generally-useful AI, maybe some new computing paradigm, but people will be bored until the new thing appears, because there's just not much fun in doing more cloud orchestration or mobile apps.
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Welcome to the slog. Software is eating the world, and we’re now in the stage of, “You’re not getting up from the table until you finish those peas.”
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All the energy moved to blockchain and space.
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That's not "tech"?
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I wonder if steel and oil engineers felt this way about Pennsylvania during the transition from industrial greenfield (oil/steel platforms) to the fractal ways that rebuilt society (cars, roads, etc)
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Maybe the explanation is simpler. Huge cognitive burden allocated to JavaScript callbacks and React infrastructure, no energy left over for excitement and joy.
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Actually it's worse. The constant attention overload in tech doesn't leave much room for younger generation of makers to really go deep, or stumble into delightful & quirky things that expand their conception of what's possible. Instead it's all spectacle and distraction.
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