I mean, sure, the world had just built a new vaccine in 20% of the usual time, using an entirely new platform, but other than that... And sure, understanding o

I mean, sure, the world had just built a new vaccine in 20% of the usual time, using an entirely new platform, but other than that... And sure, understanding of the immune system has exploded by leaps and bounds in the last two years, but other than that... And fine, we now have a reusable launch platform giving us relatively cheap access to space, but other than that... OK, and carbon capture/terraforming are rapidly improving, but really, other than that... And quantum computing has progressed by leaps and bounds, but other than that... Sometimes, when this argument comes up, I feel like I'm in a Monty Python skit. I'm terribly sorry that CS applications in a work context aren't moving as fast as the author would like to. I would like to see progress there, too. But I really think that the extrapolation from that tiny domain to "nobody is inventing anything" is maybe failing because it's lacking a whole number of steps.