Something interesting I read on Steve Woz's site
As yet another engineer working in Silicon Valley, it seems that with
all the Internet startups and dot-com millionaires, no-one is out to create
exciting, innovative products and technologies here anymore. Instead of
"How can I change the world?", it's "How can I go IPO ASAP and get rich
quick?" I see PhD's leaving high-tech to work on yet another search engine.
I see folks reading The Wall Street Journal who used to read Byte. Do
you see this trend worsening? Can hi-tech get out of this dot-com mind-set
and back to innovation? Will there ever be anything close to a technical
revolution again?
Woz:
I do see this trend increasing. A lot of the problem is that small guys
with something attractive have a much more difficult time getting recognized.
This is largely due to the spending of large companies, ensuring that
their territory is not easily eaten into. You have a good point. Where
are the engineers and scientists these days? All we hear about are CEO's.
Typically they attended business schools and weren't inspired by science
fiction.