> is that the people who are best positioned to capitalize on an emerging technology wave are the ones who started working on it before anyone realized it was important, just because it was interesting to them

Its not just “interesting” there is also happenstance

There are going to be college kids working on “XEM Smart Contracts” for some ICO consultancy startup just because they had more java classes across semesters

And they will be heralded as pioneering geniuses just because some fortune 500 starts looking for the word smart contract on linkedin