[karlello]

Tom Peters (In Search of Excellence, 1982 w/co-author R. Waterman) in his subsequent late 80s & earlist 90s books mildly complained there seemed to be no next big thing on the horizon. Computers, office networking, and home computers had become embedded in society. What was next? BOOM! We're living in it.

Another love-to-hate techie (Micro$oft founder) said in "Business at the Speed of Thought" that we tend to overplay expectations of innovations for the first couple years, but underplay their impact over the following decade.

Screechy dial-up took a long time to become giga-bit transfers of the entirety of human thought. Now augmented in "AI."

What's next? The thousands of patents long sequestered away from the world in the name of national security. Innovations that've been perfected for decades and used _against_ the greater good.