<i>“The one thing that we got extremely right about the Webvan investment was that there would be huge consumer demand for home delivery of groceries," he says. "It’s just taken time for technology to finally catch up."
</i><p>I don't understand this at all and would really appreciate any enlightenment.<p>What has changed in technology in the past 12 years to enable home grocery delivery? Broadband? Cloud storage? HTML5? AJAX? Flat design? Mobile? And if any of these (Mobile being the most likely), how would they affect viability?<p>I suspect the thing that has changed more is <i>us</i>. We are probably more open to "low tech" evolutions: lack of privacy, increased trust of strangers, crowd sourcing, always being connected. Or maybe some clever hackers figured out a better way of doing something new with the same basic technology.<p>Frankly, I can't imagine what these 10 programmers would be doing today that couldn't have been done in 2001.