Yea this article made me a little sad. First of all, it's potentially interesting history, but told without enough detail (to be expected I suppose), and b) no

Yea this article made me a little sad. First of all, it's potentially interesting history, but told without enough detail (to be expected I suppose), and b) no facts from the current state of the art. How can something be set back by 100 years if we don't have a now to reference?