I thought this post by Johannes Ernst was spot on and really eloquently put some thoughts that I’ve been having for about a year or so.
A big part of the problem I think is that we have a lot of really smart people bogged down building the same business application over and over again to support the same out of date business practice.
Where are the unique applications for our talents. I actually think that the next world changing technologies aren’t going to be necessarily derived from someone who works in the technology industry – but you can bet that some of us are going to have to write the software that supports it.
I say not necessarily because it might just happen that the next visionary does work in IT – but thats probably not where the vision came from, although you can bet that they were into sci-fi or something like that.