Be honest though - it's not like companies like to develop technology that has no commercial value. Whether or not it's used in that way is a different question, but if it's a big company developing something, you bet it went through twenty levels of market research to make sure there is a buck to make at the other end.

It's still your choice what you do with it once the technology gets to you. I find it far more fruitful to look at what people do with the technology and how they end up screwing themselves with it. And by fruitful I mean frustrating.