Reply #8: Why do you say that?

[ljm2002]

Sure, the guy is promoting his company's research. And the talk itself did not go into detail about how the carbon nano film works, although it did give an overview. Also we know that research is one thing, putting it to practical use on a wide scale basis is another. But he has a company, he works with researchers at universities (whom he does not name, but presumably who they are can be found out fairly easily), and they are thinking up breakthrough applications for materials technology. What is your objection to this?

I remember years ago, around 1995, when Mosaic was just becoming popular. All the software world was abuzz with the potential of the World Wide Web. I had a conversation with another manager in the company where I worked, and he opined that the people who were promoting the WWW and its great potential were just "drinking their own bathwater". He was very sure of himself. He probably goes around now saying "Yeah, yeah, I saw it coming from the very beginning, I knew it was going to be big!"

Not casting asparagus here, just sayin'.