> Our most important breakthroughs happened at a time of little marketing hype. I think what he meant was that a marketing hype pushes more people to get to gr

> Our most important breakthroughs happened at a time of little marketing hype. I think what he meant was that a marketing hype pushes more people to get to grips with a new technology, and thus speeds up its development. The actual technology obviously has to have been invented (the breakthrough was there) but the hype pushes it further towards maturity.