A lot of self-proclaimed technologists counterintuitively love to see technology fail, especially when they predicted so ahead of time. That's some frustrating

A lot of self-proclaimed technologists counterintuitively love to see technology fail, especially when they predicted so ahead of time. That's some frustrating shit, because it rewards the least patient and surface-level analyses which (correctly!) identify deficiencies and lulls in activity, but mislabels them as stagnation or dead-ends or fundamental flaws. It took us 20 years from General Magic to a passable iPhone. VR will take time, and AI is likely more fruitful to prioritize currently (not saying that's a bad idea!) - but we don't yet have enough historical perspective to declare VR - or even (ick) crypto - as bad directions.