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by Ajedi32 30 days ago
> Just, write the _breakthrough_ article then, please.

When exactly though? When the price of the "new" breakthrough technology that's been around for decades at that point drops from $101 per kwH to $100 per kwH?

I totally get your frustration but it seems kinda arbitrary to say a new technology isn't a breakthrough until it's ubiquitous.

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When it gets from 1000 to a 100. Or from 100 to 10.

In production. On shelves. That the average consumer can buy.

Do you remember the time where hardly anyone had a mobile phone, and one year later everyone got one for christmas ? I was there. That's a breakthrough.

Then internet in your home. Two or three years from "none has it" to "of course I have it, here's my ICQ number".

Or the day the polio vaccine was announced.

Or when when a rocket booster landed on itself.

"Before / After" moment. They exist. They don't happen overnight - great. You may have "overcame one of the many hurdles on the path to reaching a credible plan that may lead to a before/after."

Write that ! It's not a "breakthrough", though.

Or, is "breakthrough" the word for "tiny incremental change", and there is another word that I should expect to read when something consequential happens ?