Alternately, a lot of people around here no doubt have unique opportunities to speculate on how specific technologies will progress.

If you can spot something that's genuinely original in how it blends things together, has enough expert mindshare to be a leader in its domain for the foreseeable future, stands good odds of capturing a decent amount of the value it creates for those who support it, and offers a way for you to throw money at it: throw money at it.

It's a completely different game from trading in more mature markets where politics and statistics become major forces alongside original innovation in determining what happens next.