>We, people who really understand the technology that the world runs on, are a slowly dying breed.

And web development has the worst tech abstraction of all.

There used to be a time where any Software Engineers ( i think the term wasn't even invented then ) or simply programmers would know at least a thing or two about Hardware. We now have so much abstractions we have people working in tech who have zero knowledge on either software or hardware, or any low level stuff.

That is why not only do we need some open source or open standards ( I am not a zealot for everything open sources ), we also need to simplify everything we have today. To basically refractor everything we have learned from Hardware to Software.