Sometimes it may take centuries before such a process is completed. Rolling luggage is a classic example of something invented millennia after becoming technically feasible.
Then too, applications are often found by people outside big labs. The Internet had been around for nearly 25 years before Tim Berner Lees created hypertext. Telecom companies realised that text messaging had commercial potential only because
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