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In the past ten years there have been tens of articles predicting a new breakthrough technology, but not once I've seen any kind of follow up, like: "Remember t
by cliveowen 13y ago
In the past ten years there have been tens of articles predicting a new breakthrough technology, but not once I've seen any kind of follow up, like: "Remember that awesome new battery technology we covered last year? They're closer to making it reality". This never happens, I get it that progress takes decades, but why these kind of projects seem to simply die out?
- adrianN 13y agoIt's a very long road from making something work on a PhD students desk to a industrial process that works at scale. Many things can go wrong. But since everybody competes for funding things are reported as if they were available on the shelf tomorrow.