Because that's how the media portrays every trivial or incremental technology. The template above is applied to preliminary research, wild hypotheses, mundane

Because that's how the media portrays every trivial or incremental technology. The template above is applied to preliminary research, wild hypotheses, mundane incremental technology, and true breakthroughs and is all presented the same. Most things are not revolutionary, the problem is that everything is presented as earth shattering technological revolution even when it clearly is not.