Seriously scientists and engineers are becoming a lot like politicians: a lot of broken promises.
Intel Optane was another.
Carbon based chips will be another one of those promises.
In 2001 Intel promised a 10GHz cpu for 2010.
Then Intel came up with the Terahertz transistor.
And in medicine there are even more. 6 or 7 years ago I heard about 'disruptive cancer treatments', but so far I can't see nothing like that to treat cancer. If you get cancer you still have to go to chemotherapy or radiotherapy.
When I was a teenager I had a teacher that claimed science would solve anything given enough time.
We can't even stop polluting the environment.
I remember the village where my parents born and even when it had no electricity. At night it was an amazing celestial spectacle.
There was zero pollution, not even a single plastic bag, no machines, people had to work but what they ate was 1000 times better than gourmet.
The sheep cheese they had was the best chess I ever ate, and the red wine was something out of this world.
The collective oven where they baked bread smelled really like organic wheat. The even made a type of bread with eggs and pure olive oil that was super delicious. My sister which is 15 years older than me remember when she went to the fields with the uncles and they had to cook there, they had a cabin with cocking utensils there. A simple meal of onions and peppers with olive oil cocked together and then add this on top of boiled potatoes was according to her the most delicious meal she ever had. She says there nothing like that today anymore not even close.
That soil with a lot of minerals gave food a fantastic flavor.
Its all gone now, no shepherds no wine production, just some olive oil production remains, and few people grows food on the fields nowadays.
Oh and a lot of pollution now.
So there is science for you, and in a time with more diseases than ever science is falling short.
