Back in the late 1980s, I worked for a company that converted the data from mag tape onto microfiche. We had several customers ask us about CDs for data storage, and my boss referred to it as the "bleeding edge of technology" because so many companies had gone bankrupt trying to get a foothold. Considering CDs, DVDs, thumb drives, that's all rather hard to imagine now, isn't it? So, there's hope for electric cars, I guess!

One of my clients was Fujitsu, and I remember one of their IT guys telling me that pioneers are often the guys that end up dead in a ditch with an arrow in their backs!