>>>I don't think anything will ever match the sizzle of what we saw in the late 1980's. Maybe it's because it was all new territory back then and we were all youngsters witnessing history.
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>Other industries continue to see breathtaking improvements, including the absolute reality that quality flows from standardization and simplification.
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>Whereas IT continues to celebrate cottage industry behavior with self-proclaimed journeymen locking in variability that they say is better quality. It's as if every vehicle still is built by hand, not just Rolls Royce for people who want to pay extra for that sort of thing. By now, an awful lof of what IT does ought to be commodity and one day customers will decide that a hand-beaten specialist item actually is a hobby for the craftsman, not automatically a better result than a similar item churned out in identical thousands in a factory for 1/10 of the price.
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I don't see that, John.
On the contrary one of my clients has been taking clients away from much larger competitors by asking me to provide functions for their prospective clients that the one-size-fits-all systems used by the larger firms either can't do at all or are so wedded to the notion you just espoused that no one will futz with them.

That said, I'm using strong off-the shelf components like .NET, SQL Server, etc. that make that kind of nimble response easy for me to provide.