The CI brand was built over a very long period of time, really growing/emerging in the Tom Curren era... Then KS helped take them forward further...
It's so hard to see where the next peice of surfing innovation is going to come from, let alone what it might be... But with the millions of boards that have been produced, I think we have pretty much identified what works, and what does, for different people, different abilities, and different waves...