[bostonpete]

> Also: Everyone should know this.

Hm, OK...then why didn't you include that info in the article?

[semi-extrinsic]

Because that wouldn't fit the bill of unbridled techno-optimism that is mandatory in (particularly online) popsci/poptech reporting.

Sadly it's also widespread in the scientific literature, as "publish or perish" meets "won't print methods/results that are not said to be awesome".