That was a nice, easy read, thanks! I really like this quote “Most importantly, just because a particular technology is “better” in some way doesn’t guarantee it will be widely adopted, or that it will cause other, more popular technologies to improve.
In reality, technological advances are a lot like evolution in the biological world: there are all kinds of dead-ends or regressions or uneven tradeoffs along the way, even if we see broad progress over time.” This is so true and often forgotten, media makes it seem as if every tech (which is usually way more under-developed and far out than they think) is right around the corner and that the entire world will embrace it.