Transformative technologies are often Silent Phoenixes not shooting stars

The news that Google Glass is back - albeit in a more sober, enterprise focussed form - is a reminder for those of us who dabble in innovation and futurism, that the progression of emerging technology is much less like the short term glitzy world of fast moving fashion and more like the slow and steady world of engineering [who knew?] than we’d like to think.
 
The law of the fashion launch is go big, ride the wave and then jump onto the next one, quietly abandoning whatever