SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF

You can be ahead of your time, you can build a better mousetrap, you can have a VPN connection straight into the distant future—but if you fall short on execution, your chances of success are identical to those of Icarus and his flight to the sun. For the first 300 years after its invention, the wheel was used only for making pottery. Nobody could figure out how to make wheeled carts equal to the durability and versatility of sleds on runners. The obvious conceptual superiority of the wheel must have been plain to all, but the