Robin Garr wrote:the same thing happened with the Internet.
A significant exception, by the way, was Barry Bingham Jr., who accurately foresaw the Internet and used to speak in detail of "the days when you'll get your daily news broadcast to a box on your kitchen table, and you'll be able to edit your own newspaper to select the news you want."
Sadly, his executives laughed at him behind his back, his family sold the papers, and very little was done with his dream until it was too late.