Analogous twists of fate likely await some of the technologies coming on the market. Asian markets will likely adopt it first, partly because of the difficulty of typing Asian characters. Intel and Israel's Orad.net are also coming out with multi-angle video for the Web. To replay sporting events. The tension between the technically feasible and commercially desirable derives largely from the difference between science and psychology.
Science follows geometric, progressive formulas.
Things always get better. Two hundred eleven years later, computing power dominates the world. By contrast, behavior remains relatively constant. It wasn't that long ago that most of us studied goat entrails to predict the future or believed that sound community planning started with a few witch burnings. In 1790, French revolutionaries tried to create an egalitarian society by renaming the months of the year.