Maybe. But from my experience, our crowd tend to underestimate its predictive power.

We tend to see ourselves as living in a niche, remote area.

I remember in 2002-2005, when talking about the possible emergence of Smartphones, most of my friends and co-workers had the opinion that this kind of nerdy devices would never have any appeal to the general public.

"People want simple phones"

"People don't care"

I am not so sure about that, but it takes time.