Ahead of your time isn't just a problem of tech. Consumers won't buy into a product that they are "not ready for yet". A good example of this is CAS file systems al-la IPFS. The tech has been around for at least 35 years. plan9 had a fully functional CAS file system. But now, IPFS is finally getting traction, mostly because users are comfortable enough now with cloud-like services that they are capable of mentaly dealing with the abstraction.
