http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
Stuff like this is a useful antidote to sci-fi-ish ideas of "technological determinism."
That, you know, if the tech is there, it'll somehow, auto-magically, come into existence as real-world products and services. No, the infant-mortality rate in new processes, new companies, new businesses is colossal.
Our society would have a much more realistic approach to techno-capitalism if, alongside every copy of FORTUNE, there was its dark twin, LOST FORTUNE.
