Wonderful talk. Lot's of interesting points. Much of the technical went over my head though. But from what I understood, the main point he's trying to make was - we are stuck with a way of thinking in technology which was right when it was thought up, but has run out of it's usefulness.

I found his point, with respect to *nix, very insightful - > Unix suited it's time. I worry it has ended up straight-jacketing the way that we think because that was quite a while ago. It still works, which is amazing. But that doesn't mean that it's tenets and it's way of work should be sacrosanct. We should feel free to examine every idea and throw them out if we feel they no longer have value for what we're doing.

The analogies from history and communities were also very interesting (e.g. meritocracy).

Other points that I liked -

- Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers.

- Understand the past, but don't let it bind the future