D. Why a Core Technology needs other technological advancements for commercial success?
Technology is a moonshot which means, is a long game than a conventional business like hotels or restaurants. This is because technology has to serve a large amount of population and so, it has to mature first, going through several use cases, testing, adaptation, and changes, and allowing an ecosystem to develop around the technology. The invention of the airplane was not enough. There had to be an oil processing and supply industry. There had to be communication technology, there had to be airports for the airplane to be adopted by any meaningful population for any meaningful commercial success.
The invention of television was not enough for the success of television. Tremendous advancement had to be achieved in Broadcasting technologies, camera technologies, Film technology, recording methods, and Screen technology for television to be successful.
The success of the car needed innovations of the Gas stations, Road networks ideal for long car drives, motels, and other such infrastructures around the roads, improvements in the wheel technology, and finally an improvement of the manufacturing process.
So, for any technology to serve a large population with efficiency and commercial success, it not only needs adapters but also those who can constantly improve the technology, as well as those who could continuously improve on the assistive technology.
In 1989 Tim Berner’s Lee invented what we may consider the biggest fuel of the 21st century, Internet technology. However, the real boom of the Internet came in 1996 as more and more people were building Internet websites. The bubble burst in 1998. It took another five years for the stable online businesses to start existing. Internet technology needed server technology, browser technology, storage technology, and internet connection technology to improve to a level for the core technology itself to become meaningful.
