Adobe's release last week of its AIR 1.0 (Adobe Integrated Runtime) cross-platform platform got plenty of ink. Much of it missed the point. And that's understandable, given that we are tumbling into the next generation of everything all at once right now - SaaS and SOA, Web 2.0, Blu-ray, cellular streaming, and on and on - like a tornado crossing a junkyard. It's one of those times when it's hard to keep things straight.