I remember finding this article on Digg in April '07. To me it was gospel - I contacted the author thinking for sure someone else had shared his vision and wan

I remember finding this article on Digg in April '07. To me it was gospel - I contacted the author thinking for sure someone else had shared his vision and wanted to bring these ideas to all kinds of applications. At the time, not really - he had gotten a lot of attention for being innovative, but in terms of deeper interest it was mostly from those academically interested in the ideas. (although perhaps Apple hired him for their deep interest as well). Why did this fantastic article take so long to make its way to hacker news? In fact, I ask myself why I did not submit it here having read it half a dozen times over the last couple years. I'm not sure I can answer this question. But to me there is most definitely a delay between the output of innovative, unproven ideas, and the acceptance of even discussing these ideas in an engineering community. Maybe somewhere in this dynamic lies the answer to both our questions.