We tech people see a lot of ideas. Most of them are superficially exciting. For example, a way of detecting when counterfeit parts with substandard specs are us

We tech people see a lot of ideas. Most of them are superficially exciting. For example, a way of detecting when counterfeit parts with substandard specs are used in farming equipment. Maybe a music-centered social network for users of a particular music player. Many of them go on to be either wastes of time or much, much worse. Suddenly detecting substandard parts is DRM for John Deere tractors and the social network is iTunes Ping. Most ideas fail. This doesn't make them bad ideas or the people creating them bad people. It just means we've collectively learned that most ideas will fail and there are some fairly common reasons for this.