These sorts of things look like inspirational posters and suffer from survivorship bias. Many more ideas failed than succeeded.

We also seem to think that no one learned from all that experience. We can see the things that made something once thought impossible work at scale. We all know these stories. So we’re more primed to be wary of just being negative.

I’m all for spending money on this, but it could turn out certain breakthroughs are needed and we don’t know when or if they will come.