During the dotcom era, the dominant belief was that you shouldn't try to create things of value, because by the time you build them, they're obsolete. Turn it around fast. At one point, people at Netscape found that their code base had grown so large that they couldn't enhance it in a certain way. It needed a major rewrite. The result was a great piece of code, but the rewrite basically cost Netscape its market lead to Microsoft.
Quick refinement is a big deal.
But you can't build an infrastructure for rapid application development in a rapid manner. Before you can sprint, you have to take that long march. To see the future, look to the past. I have a deep, abiding passion for using technology to augment relationships. The Urbana-Champaign campus had about half of those terminals, and the rest were scattered among major universities throughout the world.