The power of technology is not when it is created by geniuses or geeks, but when it becomes scalable enough for large number of people to use it. Technology always has a delayed gratification. Electricity, internet, bulb or computers none of them were hailed as great inventions until many decades later when the interface and adjoining business environment allowed the same to prosper as a business. That is where people such as Steve Jobs are hailed as implementers of business innovation as they brought out technology tools from outside the domains of scholars to regular people as users. Often the greatest resistance to popularizing inventions comes surprisingly from their creators themselves as they fear some degree of corruption to enter their product once it goes mainstream. Thus the actual effect of today’s fancy technologies such as electric cars or Bitcoin will only emerge on the surface in time when the related interface will get developed.

Source: http://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2016/06/20/the-one-thing-that-can-transform-an-idea-into-a-phenomenon