Technological innovation limbo: How low can the bar go?

There was a time when the world dreamed of flying cars and talking robots. And though these things would be stupid disasters if they actually existed, they represented our aspirations for a better future. It was difficult to impress people back then, back in the 20th century. Marconi wowed people by sending a letter 'S' across the Atlantic in 1903. There are several S's in this post, and if they make it across the Atlantic in 2005, which they almost certainly will, nobody will be knocking at my door asking me how I did it. This is progress. The 20th century witnessed everything from the transistor to mass immunization to lasers to the ATM. All the 21st century so far has to show for it is Bonzi Buddy and the Java Log. So here we are...

The total stagnation of technological and inventive progress has never been more apparent than in the press' fawning over Sony's new /pizza function. There are no less than 48 articles on this topic already. This "innovation" apparently targets an audience with a severe aversion to using the ALT-TAB key combination to switch out of their games. The feeble Everquest players may break their index fingers, or, something.

I typically hate it when people complain about the (assumed) social ineptitude of MMORPG players, and I'm not so fond of armchair assessments of the media, so I may sound hypocritical here. And fuck it, I am. Because two or three lines of code does not constitute a "revolutionary" new "invention" folks. It's a hyperlink spawned by an elaborate IRC terminal. Fuck you all.