by John McDowall
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| Technology Musings by John McDowall |
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Wednesday, August 28, 2002 Are we done, is this all....Looking around at our industry I see very little new innovation, (maybe this is a sign of advancing years ;-)). This to me is not a sign of that we have invented everything and we should just go into maintenance mode and put our collective feet on the desk. It is not akin to the head of the US Patent Office who at the end of the 19th Century proposed closing the office as everything worthwhile had already been invented. I think this is more of a pause where we collect our creative energies for the next burst of innovation. I strongly believe that this will happen, the pressures are building and the groundwork is being laid. The pressures I see are that the information revolution has become an accepted fact but it is being held back by the innate complexity of todays architecture. This is both true in the consumer and enterprise space. The major innovation of the desktop is creating an open source office product, in the enterprise we are creating web services which are just an open systems approach to existing integration technologies. In both arenas it is becoming too hard to go beyond where we are today. This is the pressure for change, when there is an opportunity to dramatically change the landscape no amount of monopoly power or inertia can hold it back. I discussed this with a friend recently and he commented that Scotty in StarTrek never had to mount/search disk drives or deal with arcane information retrieval systems to get to information. So where do we go from here..... posted by John McDowall | 7:43 PM |
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