Can The “Next” Steve Jobs Please Stand Up; Moving Beyond Silicon Valley’s “Lost” Decade!
Except for AI, provided it is counted as an “innovation”, Silicon Valley hasn’t come up with anything “new” NEW for a while now. It is high time we have the “next” Steve Jobs with a “game-changing” product or service.
When was the last time we saw “truly” game-changing tech innovations? 2007? When the “legendary” Late Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to the world? Or, a few years earlier, Mark Zuckerberg came up with Facebook, though it is “disputed” as far as the “originality” of innovation is concerned. Maybe, the sequential “iterations” from the Google stable?
However, all these innovations were before 2010 or a few years after that. Can someone point out anything really “revolutionary” in terms of a “paradigm shift” causing technological products? Of course, we have various app-based aggregators that can be classified as “platform changers”. But, my question is anything comparable to what I mentioned earlier? NADA!
While I don’t agree with what Elon Musk says and does, his attempt to “shake up” things at Twitter is ostensibly to “drive” the “next” wave of innovation. So, maybe Musk has a point here. The tech industry-focused Platformer blog reports that many Silicon Valley “insiders” admit so much when they allude to the “lost decade” of…
