Unprepared?
This is the age where they lay their groundwork. They haven't been told it can't be done enough. The next 10 years are when the inventions and observations emerge.
As for Steve Jobs, that's who those people know. He had his finger on the pulse of commercial possibilities for Apple, but an iPod is not transmitted electricity and the iPhone is not the telephone. The most creative person ever is most likely someone who lived hundreds or thousands of years ago, whose accomplishments probably stayed close by and who could not call a press conference of representatives from around the world.
