It's more like if people had been already going to the moon for 30 years in this case. There is something to be said for large, concerted effort toward a singu

It's more like if people had been already going to the moon for 30 years in this case. There is something to be said for large, concerted effort toward a singular goal. As I said that concerted effort has been going on for quite some time now it just hasn't been funded by a narrow project that will benefit very few scientists (and apparently Google, Microsoft and Qualcomm). It's not cynicism, it's healthy skepticism. "More money on science" in this case looks more like a boondoggle that will benefit a few select scientists and corporations and will probably end up taking money away from a larger group of scientists already looking into these areas.