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It's *shocking* there aren't more groundbreaking smartphone apps. We've got powerful computers w/ significant local storage & constant access to the web, 2 high-res cameras & tons of real-time data, all easy to develop for, in a truly hungry early-stage investment environmenthttps://twitter.com/bill_easterly/status/1152683781410574336 …
Endgame for compulsory education that insists we be "well-rounded" in our ability to run a set of familiar computations rather than polymathic in our ability to generate new ones. We're actively fighting a maker culture that would otherwise emerge naturally in these conditions
Show me an adult population unable to play with completely open-ended supertoys & I'll show you a child population that elicits shock, horror & punishment when <n% of it cannot or will not bark out the state capitals like a trained dog
"a truly hungry early-stage investment environment" is not a fair comparison in terms of goals and incentives to what Apollo 11 was. Agree with some other posts that this is an incentives issue rather lack of expertise or maker culture.
Obviously
This is less an indictment on tech and creators and more about the attention preferences of the masses.
Not at all. "Eat your vegetables"-type apps are rarely in the same league as the paradigm-shifting stuff. Uber and Pokemon Go are examples of what I'm pointing at.
I feel there are many more people with software dev competency than with both software & hardware. I wonder how much this constrains the creation space. Many can make apps, but fewer can make, or even imagine, ones that interact with the physical world in interesting ways.
I feel this What are some ways to exercise the imagination muscles?
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