Wyoming, why do you hate multitouch?

It's interesting to me how new technologies grow in some areas and not others. Why did the internet spring out of northern California instead of Boston, where LAN was big?

For those of you who are curious about the rapidly developing interest in multitouch industry, here's a heat map of last week's searches for Multitouch:



Here's what it looked like in December:



Why on earth did Georgia and Texas suddenly get religion????