The pattern never changes. Dismissal comes first. The skeptics flood in—"this won't work," "it's just hype," "nobody needs this." Then comes the ridicule phase, when critics turn mockery into sport. But by then something shifts. The builders who believed early are already constructing the foundation. And one day, the doubters wake up to find themselves dependent on the very infrastructure they once dismissed. The entire future is being constructed on rails they rejected. That's how every paradigm shift plays out—from electricity to the internet, from Bitcoin to decentralized finance. The question isn't whether the cycle will repeat. It always does. The question is: which innovation are you still in phase one about?