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That's hardly surprising no ? These 'revolutions' only happen once every few decades, and looking back everything looks insignificant (because their significance shrinks to nothing when you're at the wake of the exponential function).

If you look back there's basically "nothing" that happened till the 90s; and if widen the horizon a bit and look back 'nothing' appears to have happened till the 20th century and so on.

We grow in ability, not wisdom (which is why 'forgetting' is so much more catastrophic).

We're on the verge of another consolidation, where laptops and tablets become dumb shells for phones. (Exceptions: "hardcore" gaming, software development, content creation.) But yes, there's less to capture.

I think the only explanation is that Steve Jobs was some kind of god, or extraterrestrial visitor.

You write 10 but isn’t it a lot closer to 20 years by now?