The Parallelable of Glitter and the Fish.
There's all these dudes on the bank of a river involved in a fishing competition, Glitter is sitting off to one side, engaged on a task of his own devise, he's smoothing the rough bit's off a gigantic hook and forging links of chain. One of the dudes asks him "What are you doing?"
"Getting ready to go Fishing." replied Glitter.
"With that size hook in this size river?"
"This is where the I think the big fish is."
Every one else is bringing in lots of little fish and they all tell him he has got no idea what he's doing, he continues, day after day, to make the hook more comfortable and the links stronger. Then one day, Glitter puts the heavy but comfortable hook on his shoulder and trailing the chain behind him, walks out into the river, takes a deep breath and trudges all the way down to the bottom and lying there, is, as expected, a fish. It was truly the biggest fish anyone ever saw, the big fish that everyone's always tying to catch. Glitter inserts the comfortable hook gently in the biggest fishes mouth and heads back to the river bank,however he was so weak from the ordeal to date, that he only just made it back to the shore. As he crawled ashore one of the dudes who was in the fishing competition said "Where is the Big fish you promised?"
"Connected to this" said Glitter, brandishing the chain he had woven that was connected to the comfortable hook nestled deeply in the mouth of the Big Fish. "I need lot's of help pulling it in, I am too weary from the struggle thus far to do it alone, come let's all get hold of the chain and pull together, there is plenty to go around, it's the biggest fish you ever saw."
The crowd each have a turn on the chain...
"There is no fish on the end of this chain. You have Bullshitted me, it is snagged on some unseen obstacle, because, I can assure you that I can pull up any fish." cried the first.
"I agree" said the second, "for I too can land any fish no matter how big."
As to what the rest of them said, Glitter didn't wait around to hear, for he knew it would only be variations on the same ego-centric theme. No one seemed to realize that Glitter wasn't in their fishing competition, he was following his own agenda of preparation and didn't have the time to explain the concept of cooperation to "competitive dudes." He left the chain connected to the fish laying on the banks of the river where anyone could see it and with out a backward glance he moved forward to the next item on the agenda, he knew the fish and chain would be there when he returned.
When next Glitter turned up at the river bank he was driving a tow truck.
"What is that contraption" asked the crowd, for they had never seen internal combustion, computers or hydraulics."
"Technology." replies Glitter as he hitches up the chain, "Ummm, any body know any where around here I can get some gadgetbudget?"
That is exactly the situation as I type, the only thing missing in the construction equation is venture capital/gadgetbudget, the fuel in the tank of technology.
To Be Continued