An important number of those remarks were based on a snapshot of the state of the technology: a fault in not seeing the potential evolution. Examples of people

An important number of those remarks were based on a snapshot of the state of the technology: a fault in not seeing the potential evolution. Examples of people who could not see non (in some way) dead-ends do not cancel examples of people who correctly saw dead-ends. The lists may even overlap ("if it remains that way it's a dead-end").