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And more importantly, how could any modern person get through life without a laser disc player? Or Google glass? Or Foursquare check-ins?

Which is to say: Your examples have a strong stink of survival bias. There are endless examples of technologies which failed, even where proponents were being heavily that they would be world changing.



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