It is interesting you feel phones and OSes are stuck in the 70s when the real pioneering work of building a personal computer that wasn't designed for prefab apps but rather built for personal use in a fully programmable, reflective, extensible system was in the 70s with the Xerox Alto and Smalltalk.
The future is often rooted in the past that has been forgotten.
Many promising tech startups make these mistakes by thinking they're the first to come up with an idea, when really it was decades ago.
For entrepreneurs and explorers in this new AI age, rather than being kids again, which seems to be a way to quickly and repeatedly step on rakes, I might suggest being an old wizard. They retain playfulness and openness tempered by wisdom and experience and vast libraries of history. New things often rhyme with old things.
The future is often rooted in the past that has been forgotten.
Many promising tech startups make these mistakes by thinking they're the first to come up with an idea, when really it was decades ago.
For entrepreneurs and explorers in this new AI age, rather than being kids again, which seems to be a way to quickly and repeatedly step on rakes, I might suggest being an old wizard. They retain playfulness and openness tempered by wisdom and experience and vast libraries of history. New things often rhyme with old things.