Forgot your password?  Comment: The banality problem. (Score 4,
Interesting) 220  by Animats (#46468371) Attached to: Silicon
Valley's Youth Problem  Read the whole article. It's quite good.
It's not "youth" that's the problem. It's banality. "The best
minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people
click ads. That sucks." - Jeff Hammerbacher, Facebook. Most of
the "app" companies are not "tech" companies. They're fad
publishers. The technology for doing routine web apps and phone
apps is pretty much standardized now.  The engineering that goes
into phone hardware is just awe-inspiring. Electronic design
today is brutal. You barely get to use any power, the budget for
each function is tiny, the size has to be very small, you have
to operate multiple radios without interference right next to
each other, and there's a new product to get out every six
months. Most of that engineering is not done in the US. That's a
big concern. The US probably doesn't have the technology to
build a cell phone any m