Rather than ask
Maybe we should ask
How can I specify, design, and build the system that my stakeholders need?
How can I set up the socio-technical ecosystem that will allow users, developers, businesses, and everyone else to cooperate and compete to build what everyone needs?
I’ve been thinking about these sorts of questions a lot in relation to our current disruption in web search. See some of my musings in Towards “benchmarking” democratization of good search and Who is going to try to make web search better?