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Originally Posted by Lebenz
Even worse, as suggested above, the commercial industrialization of CS has served to squelch individual initiative. There have been no new “killer apps” for many years now. In fact the most innovative element of the industry have been by those who pursue viruses and spyware. Everything else seems to consist of incremental and largely irrelevant changes, done only to add glits and create a reason to resell something for the 15th time.
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Handwriting and speech recognition is improving. ASIMO. The ability to model biology (neurons, synapses), weather, etc. is improving (although we need SOOOO much more processing power). Computer architecture is being radically redesigned to allow heat dissapation and more even distribution. Processor caches are going to be drastically changed to accommodate new designs (i.e. control by a programmer instead of an algorithm). Sure it will take a while for these improvements to work their way into the next "killer app" but it will happen.
I consider Napster and iTunes to be killer apps. The ability to get instant access to a huge library of music with accurate meta data is a pretty big change. Self service/pay groceries and gas stations are another example of a recent killer app. Although some might suggest that isn't an improvement. Maybe you're right. Technology is stagnant. Oooops gotta go. My stove just informed me that the cookies are burning ...