Roughly speaking, most advancements come in two stages — initial technology breakthrough — building massive companies for mainstream markets These st

Roughly speaking, most advancements come in two stages — initial technology breakthrough — building massive companies for mainstream markets These stages can be 10 years apart from each other. Companies like Dropbox and Uber are commercializing advancements of the last decade. It's easy to criticize them as "lacking any serious innovation". At the same time, scientists make serious advancements on materials like graphene. But few people at HN notice this progress because massive commercialization has not started yet.