First with the lowest cost of time and effort with crazy trial and error, go through the small experimental prototype, and then from small to large
"Bad times are worse than imagined", which can be understood as the negative feedback loop breaks through the critical point, to the extreme, far more than the small fluctuations near the equilibrium state that we are used to before.
Efficiency gains can come in many forms: broadband Internet access, which used to be 100 megabytes, can now be 1 gigabyte; What thought could only be sent to hundreds of people before, but now a text can be seen by tens of thousands of people and get unexpected feedback and inspiration. Previously encountered difficult problems can not get angry, now in the Internet search, friends in the circle of Shouting, quickly find a number of alternatives, a few minutes to get it done;
Made a lot of mistakes, paid a lot of tuition to know that there is no myth in this world, only some very simple truth: cheap to defeat expensive, good quality to defeat poor quality, serious to defeat rash, patient to defeat impetuous, diligent to defeat lazy, reputable to defeat no credibility.
You shouldn't take risks in pursuit of what you don't need, what you need. No matter how big the reward or how small the risk, you should not have this idea in the first place.