And I think that happens across industries. I remember in the late 80s, the chief engineer for Oldsmobile had the best engine on the market. He had this engine sitting in his office in Lansing. Magazines wrote about this engine. But it never got into production. Really. It is amazing the stupid corporate stories there are. Really smart people running companies, but they aren't brilliant and can't find their way out of a tube.
Look up Propulse technology, thermo-electrics, and free pistons. Its going to be a big deal.
As for engines, I talked to German engineers in Reno working for VW over 10 years ago when they were driving their diesel Rabbit protoptypes around the US. They were getting 55+ mpg even back then and those vehicles just now started hitting the market.
Right now, from my perspective, its taking 3-4 years for my ideas to make it into the real world after I write a white paper. The big problem is waiting for the need for them to appear in others' minds.
DEC had a desktop PC running windows with a secure, mature OS long before Intel or Microsoft did. VMS is still the top OS for many applications. But its basically dead. Tremendous resources have been expended recreating what was there all along, with little new to show for it after all this time.
Its human to reinvent the wheel, making it octagon in shape, then claim its better than the round wheel we have had around for a thousand years. A lot of bumpy rides must be had before the "inventor" finally arrives back at the right shape that others had laready done years before.
Its also human to play whack a mole, thinking its progress, rather than just unplug the machine. People think they get paid to whack the moles, not stop the moles.
Let's examine Hillary. Here is a speculation. Had Hillary dumped Bill when they were in Berkeley and stayed in California and made Marin her home and run for office, she'd likely be Governor, and given her penchant for doing things, a much better one. Bill would never have been Governor, but would have gone into the House and ended up as Speaker, a post he'd likely have held as long as Sam Rayburn did, and likely he would have had a greater impact there with his abilities to work with and listen to people.
The problem with intelligence and design is that the operators of the system will not be as smart. Nor will the later modifiers of it.
Things have to be made for the lower common denominator or at least explained to them or at last set up to where they can't mess it up - but they will!! ( Leave something out and the bridge falls down..)
Someone has to serve as that link - they must be smart enough to understand the smarties, but conversant enough to work with everyone. Smarties, unless they spend a lot of time with a lot of different people, will struggle to communicate properly. And communication is the key to getting things done or selling products. One assumption is that smarties' time is too valuable to spend on things others can do better.
