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You could say this about a lot of tech that just wasn't quite right, failed, and then someone tried something at a later date and it took off. Google wasn't th
by Zimahl 13y ago
You could say this about a lot of tech that just wasn't quite right, failed, and then someone tried something at a later date and it took off. Google wasn't the first search engine, Skype wasn't the first attempt at consumer-level video over the internet, World of Warcraft wasn't the first MMO, the list goes on.
- ChuckMcM 13y agoThat is exactly true. People come up with ideas and try things all the time. The "new" thing here is the crowd funding aspect. It appears to be much easier to convince 100,000 people to risk $10 than it is to convince 1 person to risk $1M. This fact has been exploited by "religious figures" for centuries, I fear for a world besotted with tech "gurus" who get rich off selling people a technological dream future that somehow never quite comes to pass. But I worry about lots of things so what's one more right?