Eh, people also looked at a bunch of terrible inventions and correctly said, "who would ever want that?". Sometimes an invention is mistimed (eg, if the remote

Eh, people also looked at a bunch of terrible inventions and correctly said, "who would ever want that?". Sometimes an invention is mistimed (eg, if the remote control were invented when we had 4 channels and not 40 or 400) or lacking just the right amount of polish (does anyone remember browsing the web on a pre-iPhone smart phone?), but sometimes an invention is just solving a problem almost no one has in a way essentially no one wants.