Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
I'm trying to think of examples of technologies that were innovative and basically worked, but weren't potent enough to overcome the skepticism eventually, and/or couldn't overcome the deadweight of externalities. Not potent enough: flying cars Couldn't overcome externalities: nuclear rockets Any others?
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Jogundas Armaitis
@jogundas.eth
"Not potent enough" has more way examples if one includes products that only have niche/limited adoption: 0. Jetpacks 1. 3D Televisions 2. QR Codes for Payments in Western Markets 3. Speech recognition as a UI / Alexa 4. Smart Home Technology 5. Satellite Phones 6. Robotic Pets / Aibo
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