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Cryptography has also been progressing well. Same for various encoding formats; Opus is both better quality per bit & uses less CPU than Vorbis

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> this matters because most basic research ends up being commercially useful eventually

That is quite a positive view. As a university professor I see a lot of speculative work. It is presented as fundamental, but makes assumption which do not hold in the real world. Hence a lot is mostly ignored.