>>Just kidding. Even though the current development environment can be bewildering, I wouldn't want to roll the clock back to 1997. Much less 1980, when I started in this business. Punch cards and "sit up and beg" keyboard/consoles, anyone? (So called because you had to hold your arms at a 45 degree angle to type. This was before there was much thought of ergonomics or carpal tunnel syndrome).
No, no need to roll back clocks... but IMHO it's worth looking out the windows when you're on a bus to make sure you're going in the right direction. If not, there's nothing silly about getting off at the next stop. Even if the seat was wonderfully comfortable. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
