> It's never obvious why a technology is valuable before someone invents an application for it. Well that's just provably false:) Before flight people knew wh

> It's never obvious why a technology is valuable before someone invents an application for it. Well that's just provably false:) Before flight people knew why flight would be useful. And before broadband people already knew that it would be important. I remember my mom in 1995 saying how useful she thought the internet would be once it was fast enough to transfer videos and pictures of her grand kids.