>>and this maps perfectly with the IT/web evolution
My first computer in the early 1980s had a silicon chip, a keyboard and a screen. 35 years later my computer has a silicon chip, a keyboard and a screen- and a mouse. IOW there's been no real change there at all. Web is just another way of showing stuff on a screen with keyboard and mouse interaction. Mobile devices are cool, but in the end they also have silicon chips, keyboards, screens and mouse analogs. So in effect there's no keyhole surgery yet and we're still doing laparotomies to remove gallbladders except that we have different sorts of scalpels of which we are very proud.
"... 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
