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.
Re:Light-based computers in development
by CyberDildonics on Friday May 22, 2015 @12:53AM
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Soon I hope, I want to write software that runs a million times as slow.
When will we see this millions time faster computers commercially available?
Maybe around the time when the thousands-times faster internet and 100 times larger batteries from articles I read years ago are available...