'Interest in real time 3D on the Web is increasing after the long lull,' writes Len Bullard. 'Perhaps among all of the efforts,' he continues, 'a genuine market will emerge and that will create a visible and undeniable need for convergence. Give it ten years.'

Consider that when the pharaohs were buried with the wealth of Egypt, tomb raiders did the economy a favor by liberating that wealth and putting it back into circulation. But at the end of the day they were grave robbers who walked on bones not to achieve any greater good than enr...