With HTML5, what opportunities do you see open up?
I suppose the idea in creating wealth is about catalyzing a number of similar and different new technologies first and best to meet an unmet or latent human need. Rather than catching a single wave, it's about sitting atop a standing wave generated by many.
Like in the Civilization game, new wonders have prerequisite technologies, and then new opportunities open up.
They didn't get there first... They got there when the people and the technology was right.