Small steps
This article in the New Scientist reminded me of two things I find interesting in the relationship between science and technology. The first one is that all the technologies we take for granted are the result of innumerable small steps – there is no single Eureka! moment that gives us our current wonders; the second one is that the state of the art is absolutely dependent on the production side of things, i.e., if you can’t make something economically it’s like the scientific breakthroughs behind it never existed, technology-wise.
