If you use computers the state of the technology industry must be disturbing, if you're thinking. If your vendors are delivering what you want, I imagine you're in a small minority. What would it take to get a new industry in place that wasn't selling airbags, but was focused on giving you and your users what you want. So there's my conference outline. When you hit bottom it's time to start planning for the future.
All bets are off.
Time to make some new ones, and in doing so, perhaps learn from the lessons of loops gone by. Copyright 1994-2001 Dave Winer . It's even worse than it appears.