Is Technology Stagnating

Technology has reached some amazing feats in the last 35 years but I began to wonder after reading a few blogs and news articles if with all of our innovations we really arn’t just tweeking the same thing, in other words, has technology become stagnant.

Examples include

Chip architecture – x86 still the mainstay for decades

OS – Choice between Windows (with beginnings in DOS, and OS/2 decades ago) vs. Unix and its offshoots Linux and OS X.

Sure a new Windows is great, and a faster x86 processor is nice but is it time to start over and look at technology without preconceptions and actually create something new from scratch, or is there no reason to re-invent the wheel.