I think it&#x27;s fine we are using what we have to make things work today.  But it seems like very little research and development is being performed to build a brighter future.  Computer science is a field seemingly led by the loudest voices, not necessarily the brightest.  It feels like OS, language, database, and other computer science research is at an all time low and instead is being driven by ad-hoc open source development for better or for worse.