Or are "they" the roadrunner, eluding our clumsy displays of technology and force, always resurfacing elsewhere?
Console games represent some of the industry's most immersive experiences and grandest displays of technology.
It was the awesome display of military technology presented by the United States first in the 1991 Persian Gulf war that helped prod China into renewing its efforts in space.
Earlier in the day, the city that is vying to become the East Coast rival to Silicon Valley gave a dinosaur's display of voter technology when it struggled to make 50-year-old lever machines work at polling stations.
At the display of British technology and invention, French commentator and tennis star Amelie Mauresmo said: " Decidedly, they [the British] have invented things," while during the NHS section another commentator said that in the health service the medicines and treatment were free, but added: "Of course you have to wait several weeks to be treated".
There's no arguing that the Snapbot is an impressive display of retail technology, But if Snap wants to achieve widespread distribution of Spectacles (and presumably other forthcoming hardware devices), it eventually had to expand beyond the Snapbot.
The Pentagon is apoplectic because this display of Russian technology revealed the end of the American monopoly over long-range cruise missiles.
They are already used in specialist communications and military applications but, despite high hopes and high-profile displays of the technology, they have never managed to hit the mainstream.
Chancellor George Osborne has witnessed a display of its enabling technology, and is excited by the innovation.
In a display of Herculean strength, technology stocks fought off the selling pressure from earlier in the day and bounced back toward the end of the session.
