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| The goal-orientated approach that the management books advocate is to find a need and fill it. We don’t get many new ideas out of that because if you ask most people what they want, they want just what they have now, 10 percent faster, 10 percent cheaper, with 10 percent more features. It’s kind of a boring way to predict the future. But if we look at the big hitters in the 20th century, like the Xerox machine, like the personal computer, like the pocket calculator, all of these things did something else. They weren’t contaminations of existing things. They weren’t finding a need and filling it. They created a need that only they could fill. – Alan Kay, Predicting the Future |
The Valix project is an exciting look into the possibilities of software. Many projects throw around the words 'innovative' and 'world-changing', but how often does software depart significantly from the norm? Many types of software have not fundamentally changed in the last 30 years. They've simply gained new features or made their way to new places and devices. The Valix project aims to rethink the basic principles of OS design that we have been stuck with since the 80s.