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The web I want vs. the one we have

I remember when I first arrived in Silicon Valley with a couple of products and after meeting Steve Jobs at Apple, and signing with the company that bought Visicalc, I felt like I had arrived, and …

I later learned that the execs at most of the tech companies were similarly clueless on what made software possible, and basic stuff like trading off time for space and vice versa. And then years later when the PC industry was slowing down, and the cursor had moved into the newly invented world wide web, when we were booting up blogging and I was writing for Wired, again — almost no one knew how these things worked and thus had no idea what was possible. It was so weird, I could figure things out, because I had a degree in computer science, and had written at least prototypes of most of the different kinds of software, that were incomprehensible to anyone else I met in the industry.

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