He was right, but in the wrong model of society.
This is the kind of mistake a founder should always watch out for. Like, keep repeating to oneself: people are not like you, people are not like you.
This is the kind of mistake a founder should always watch out for. Like, keep repeating to oneself: people are not like you, people are not like you.
Relatively harmless when we're armchair theorists wondering if the Apple Watch is going to take off or not, but devastating when we make projections about economies, finance, housing prices, etc.
PS: Also, the "anybody can put together the same thing" argument has been used to discredit all sorts of things, hasn't it? Dropbox, Instagram... It reminds me of that joke about Modern art. "It's so simple, I could've done it." "Yeah, but you didn't."
But nobody did, and there's a reason for that.
> In the 1st century AD, Hero of Alexandria described the [aeolipile]
> The aeolipile Hero described is considered to be the first recorded steam engine or reaction steam turbine
"Work with what you know."