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That's always been true. We went through PDAs, 3D TVs, smart cities, cyberspace, but some of those actually did become our iPhones. "Nothing ever happens" is just hindsight/survivorship bias.


That doesn’t mean they were a good use of our energy and hype. A lot of those also didn’t in my way or cost billions.




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