I would like to pose a question to you, what if our culture, the tech culture, is a pop culture? Often times technologies become popular at the expense of others. If the technology that got popular wasn't the best technology but got popular for other reasons like, let's say creator was popular, then it's clear that technology might have actually destroyed a lot of potential wealth that otherwise would have occurred!

And empirically hasn't this been the case in our history in tech? Windows being popular over Mac, IE being more popular than netscape, etc etc.