I suggest retracting this statement. What idea do you have of how the world will look 50 years from now? This may be remembered as your "640kb will always be enough" quote.
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"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
YC is definitely working to prove pg right.
2) what fun is being visionary if you can't say anything bold for fear of being proved wrong?
Also, the 640k quote attributed to Bill Gates is folklore.
"A few decades" is not a short amount of time. I don't think it's naive to believe that this trend is lasting.
"Do you have anything other than your personal opinion?" I have not stated much...
""A few decades" is not a short amount of time. I don't think it's naive to believe that this trend is lasting."
How do you get from a few decades to an indefinite future? I believe in start-ups, but it doesn't mean that start-ups are the ultimate sort of company forever. Maybe, and this is just an example, maybe in twenty years from now, corporations will finally learn how to identify smart people, and give them what they need, and to quantify their performance, and all the other things that they're lacking, and start-ups will not have many advantages on them.
In summary, even though start-ups are great now, we shouldn't become fixated on start-ups.
In this stage we finally get responses to what was said, rather than how or by whom. The lowest form of response to an argument is simply to state the opposing case, with little or no supporting evidence.
This is often combined with DH2 statements, as in:
I can't believe the author dismisses intelligent design in such a cavalier fashion. Intelligent design is a legitimate scientific theory.
Contradiction can sometimes have some weight. Sometimes merely seeing the opposing case stated explicitly is enough to see that it's right. But usually evidence will help."