Submission + - Ten things holding back tech development (zdnet.co.uk)
ZDOne writes: "ZDNet UK has put together a list of the main blockers that are preventing technology from achieving its true potential in terms of development and progress.
Microsoft's strangle hold on the desktop makes the list as does operator lock-in and controversially the lack of real global wars/disasters. The article claims that these days, warfare still results in misery and death, but the technological benefits are harder to appreciate. There's not much in a stealth fighter or bomb-disposal robot that helps away from the battlefield. The "war on drugs" and the "war on terror" both sound good but have generated little of note, beyond copious government expenditure on ever more inventive ways to annoy their own citizens."
