Ones that got away

Bright ideas, big wait on tech payback | CNET News.com "The tech industry is famous for billion-dollar ideas. But the rewards don't always to go to the inventor. Some of the most important technologies of the past 50 years--the transistor, the relational database and the microprocessor--weren't the slam dunks for their creators that you might expect." -- Certainly not extensive, but an interesting read.