Arrington may have been making an oblique literary referance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_thre

Arrington may have been making an oblique literary referance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws & Investors tend to invest to things they can sell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory So they are interested in ideas that have good "pitch". The technology is only a means to an end here.