Last time round many of the firms that rushed to exploit the demand for everything to do with the Internet got things seriously wrong, as the demise of the dotcoms shows.
Clive Sinclair was "amused and gratified" by the attention the machine received but made little effort to exploit the demand, effectively ceding a very lucrative market to third party suppliers, a decision that undoubtedly forfeited a lot of potential earnings.
Or will improved connections simply allow foreign firms to better exploit the demand in east Africa for IT services?
Immigration may also play its part: Mr Mooney says many south Asians, who tend to keep some capital in gold, pawn 22-carat pieces.To exploit this demand, pawnbrokers are shedding their dingy, Dickensian image.
As a result, the SOI wafer market currently a mere $40m a year is expected to grow tenfold by the end of the decade.To exploit this demand, SOITEC is building a factory in Grenoble and has teamed up with Shin-Etsu Handotai, the world's biggest manufacturer of silicon wafers, to build another one near Tokyo.
In any case, most analysts are predicting double-digit (albeit low double digit) PC growth for the next few years, and Micron is well positioned to exploit the demand.
"We are also open to exploiting this demand, but it has to happen in a structured way that doesn't destroy the existing players".
Financial innovation exploits the demand for leverage with products like subprime mortgages.
Why Blackberry failed Reportedly upping the pressure on Spotify, the music app Bloom.fm has exploited the demand for streamed music and Pandora's failure to launch in the UK.
"So given the favorable climate for these high-end mixed uses, and the cache that being 'tallest' brings to the market, I would say that the appearance of these buildings suggests that developers are trying to exploit a demand opportunity".
