From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Jan 27 1998 - 11:37:58 MST
Technological progress is never certain, and there are a lot of great
inventions that never got anywhere because of lack of interest among
researchers, superiors, investors or the public, or quietly failed due
to obscure problems or non-obvious flaws. The mortality of good ideas
is frighteningly high. And people tend to stick with tried-and-proven
technologies, even if they are worse than the new alternatives. Very
sad, but it keeps Microsoft and internal combustion in business.
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