Great discussion thus far, Mq and TRIG. Thanks.
Maurice,
I rather like the warm fuzzy your vision imbues on the spirit. However, I don't believe the realization of your vision is capable of remaining apace with demand creep. Or, should I say demand onslaught, at this stage of the game, given the natural and always-attendant throttling of that demand, as I suggest below? While most of the physics, both theoretically and materially, may exist to support your argument, I do not believe that industry is up to the task of evolving the solutions you cited in time frames necessary to keep your vision on course, given the disruptive (read: self-cannibalizing) effects that such solutions have on the very organizations that are most capable of innovating them.
We'll never fully understand all the dynamics at play here, since progress proceeds at its own pace and never fully discloses to historians what might have otherwise been. I suggest that your vision, instead, paints an attractive road map, always in search of equilibrium, always depending on the same enabling and inhibiting forces that have always been.
FAC
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