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Are you being optimistic or pessimistic? It's only been 15-20 years since 56kb dialup was the norm, and Tesla are doing pretty well at the moment.

Not pessimistic about technology, but about exaggerated article titles :)

it's research and it's still valuable, even though yours truly might not yet be able to buy it at fry's yet.

some research might become available on the end-user, some won't. Often HN worthy stuff isn't really end-user though.

For me personally, it's good enough if it manages to inspire and interest others.

Soon I hope, I want to write software that runs a million times as slow.