What makes you think things need to be special in order to be pushing toward the future? A lot of the work of building something better is incremental and not especially innovative.
People don’t pay attention to how true innovation comes through iteration. We didn’t just magically have the devices we have today from nothing; they are the result of years of subtle improvements over time.
That anybody on HN doesn’t realise this blows my mind, but perhaps they’re only young and think the world has always been full of amazing devices like this since the get go.
