Bluetooth, the Internet, Smartphones, Twitter, Facebook. All were technologies that had to incubate quite some time, some for a decade or more, before they wer

Bluetooth, the Internet, Smartphones, Twitter, Facebook. All were technologies that had to incubate quite some time, some for a decade or more, before they were widely usable. It concerns me when a tech writer looks at something and says "it will never be useful within 6 months" when there is a ton of infrastructure involved. It's not about the immediate payoff, it's about the future.