For the consumer adopting a new technology is an individual decision which is increasingly becoming monetarily inexpensive requiring mostly a time investment. F

For the consumer adopting a new technology is an individual decision which is increasingly becoming monetarily inexpensive requiring mostly a time investment. For the enterprise a change in technology is an organization decision that will impact internal processes that could cause changes to the way hundreds or thousands work leading to a large expense. Because of this cost difference the consumer will be more likely to experiment with new technologies than the enterprise, also, since changes in consumer technology is driven by many individual decisions not a organization decision the changes will occur faster. Currently, this change in the flow of innovation is focused on information technologies. Over time as the cost of other technologies (biotech, custom manufacturing, ...) fall I would expect to see a similar result.