Talk:Lightcraft

message: This idea is essentially dead now isn't it? It was a neat trick, but I suspect it was very litle more than that. Page needs an update.--Deglr6328 06:41, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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message: I don't think any new idea for a potentially useful technology can ever be "essentially dead".  It's not the way these things work.  Check out the theme behind James Burke's Connections.  Things like Lightcraft can't be done at the time of conception because key technologies, market factors, and confidence are lacking.  As time goes on 1) needed technologies come into existence, 2) unforeseen new market needs develop parts of the original idea as solution to a need unrelated to the original idea, and 3) Historic events occur that change mindsets and cause the public and engineers (and investors!) to realize "Ah!, Of course it can be done!  It's not crazy after all!" (as happened in the wake of Spaceship One).  Lightcraft sits in the gestation period.  The first two things are indeed happening for Lightcraft.
You might have said in Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's time, that since his rocket ideas didn't come to fruition over a 25-year span, rockets were "essentially dead".  I'm not saying that Lightcraft as conceived now are in the near future, but we can't say something is dead simply because presently it is "just a neat trick".  Electricity was just a neat trick in the early 1800's.  The article should not present lightcraft as defunct, but rather as a disruptive technology with potential to do interesting things as yet not thought of!  :-)
--Gummer85 (talk) 17:14, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Not dead.... ''[[disruptive technology|Disruptive!]]''

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