Blogger Robert Scoble made an appearance on CNBC's Fast Money, but it was a disaster. The stock-talk jocks were thoroughly unimpressed. Thinner screens? Products due out in 2009? Build-your-own cell-phones from Bug Labs? They were having exactly none of it. Here's the grand disconnect between the gadget-addled technofreaks of Silicon Valley and the portfolio-juggling quant jocks of Wall Street: You want to make money five years from now. They want to make money today. Never forget that, whether you're talking to a business-channel anchor or an investment banker.

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