Amazing how tech knowledge constantly migrates from labs to shopping carts. If you want to understand next year’s tech, look in a lab. If you want to understand today’s tech, look in the shopping carts of nerds. There’s a reason PC build details count as high-value content.
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It’s partly showing off of course, but mainly it’s digested understanding of what’s on offer and how to put it together for meaningful capability. System integration knowledge in a bill of materials.
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Aren’t you ignoring “Crossing the Chasm”? Chasm-crossing is precisely what has to happen (or not happen...), it can’t be taken as given.
To take old (and thus very clear) examples — laserdisc, 8-track/quadrophonic, minidisc.
Modern example — drones?

