Originally Posted by RawAlex

This guys is smart, but he also has a preset goal in mind and doesn't like the way that the net is going. His goal won't come around, or at least he won't be able to get in front of it like he has the last couple of times.

He wants to experience the same thrill that society had when we went from horse to car or radio to TV. We already had that, going from isolated islands of computing to the net we have today. The Internet has almost reached appliance stage, and that isn't a bad thing. The next big step isn't directly ahead.