For all the inventions presented as revolutionary that never really caught on - the Dymaxion house and car, the geodesic dome - as well as the countless pages of eccentrically theoretical writing and even more countless hours of talk, it can be difficult for us now, here in the actual twenty-first century, to pin down the civilizational impact he so earnestly longed to make.
Hybrid apps won - native apps were neglected. Nowadays, everyone uses cross-platform hybrid desktop apps written in JavaScript, ignoring excessive CPU and RAM usage. You most likely use a hybrid, native-like, cross-platform code editor for day-to-day programming activities. It may work fine on your computer because you've upgraded your hardware, since it may have worked slowly before. If you check the resource usage of your favorite code editor, you'll see not megabytes of RAM, but gigabytes of RAM; that's not fair and ethical.
After decades of working with small businesses, I've witnessed a troubling pattern: the harder entrepreneurs try to maximize efficiency, the less efficient they become. This efficiency paradox plagues businesses of all sizes, but it's devastating for small companies where every resource counts. McKinsey research shows that small and medium businesses operate at 50% of the productivity of large firms - a gap that stems from misguided efficiency efforts. Understanding and resolving this paradox can transform how you operate.