20 years since this manifesto lamenting the previous 20 years its pretty clear this ship has no captain

In terms of resource consumption machine capacity has grown exponentially, but who can claim the same for user utility?

This is by now a problem so pervasive that even economists puzzle over (the missing information technology productivity gain)

But this text is part of the problem really, as it is too simplistic and doesnt feel like it identifies fundamental recipes for building better software