One fundamental change is that computing is a fully accepted consumer market. I hear ordinary folk using technical jargon at in cafes. It's in a hit sitcom (big bang theory). This means that anything new won't feel any more special than new toothpaste or washing powder technology. The future has become commonplace, like the grimy worn spaceships of star wars. So I guess we're "hipsters". But excitement over the new has always been fundamental to science and technology.
There's another view: If things seem boring, it's because you are boring. Invent something interesting.
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There's yet another set of examples from gaming e.g. http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/owhaz/dear_nimblebit...
Alan Kay claimed there's only three new things in computers since 1980 (though he couldn't remember what they were): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/357813/help-me-remember-a... and when he asked for new things since 1980, the web seems to be the only one http://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922/significant-new-in...
One fundamental change is that computing is a fully accepted consumer market. I hear ordinary folk using technical jargon at in cafes. It's in a hit sitcom (big bang theory). This means that anything new won't feel any more special than new toothpaste or washing powder technology. The future has become commonplace, like the grimy worn spaceships of star wars. So I guess we're "hipsters". But excitement over the new has always been fundamental to science and technology.
There's another view: If things seem boring, it's because you are boring. Invent something interesting.