[mncharity]

AFAIR, a 1980's MIT AI Lab "how to do research" memo, suggested as one way to build things: describe what you'd like to build, and maybe someone else will be inspired to do it, long before you'd have gotten around to it.

[mikewarot]

I'm still waiting for the Memex, you would think someone did it between 1945 and now, but nope. 8(