"I'm under the impression that the Googles and Boings and NASAs of the world want to get their feet wet in the field despite its infancy." And note this is inv

"I'm under the impression that the Googles and Boings and NASAs of the world want to get their feet wet in the field despite its infancy." And note this is invariably trumpeted loudly as in current production commercial end user applications. There are obvious financial / stock market reasons for these wild claims. But if you clear away the PR haze, the field is actually in the earliest research mode. By computer analogy, whats going on in reality is the first ENIAC has been partially wired although it doesn't work perfectly and may in fact never meet its goals and may or may not ever have any direct effect on anyone, although existing unit record equipment manufacturers are watching nervously. The analogy of whats being presented by PR as a completed accomplishment is Zilog having shipped their fifty millionth Z80 processor and the living rooms of America are stuffed with "1980s home computers" which pretty much did have at least some effect on everyone alive either then or later.