""" Forget the idea that "spontaneous utilitarian consumer demand"
  drives markets. That mid 20th century 'pull model' passed into the
  era of cynical manufacture where successful businesses care not
  about what people want (let alone need, or just what might sell) so
  much as about what people can be made to want. Genuinely new
  inventions able to create wild, fresh markets, like in the golden
  age of nonlinear physics between 1940 and 1980, no longer
  happen. We've been in an incremental push economy for about 50 years
  now. Western capital economies manufacture demand by influence. We
  once used market research, but surveillance data now fills that need
  to shape markets.  """ - from Chindogu [0]