[aetherson]

If the future tense in those sentences were present tense, I'd be much more excited. If they were predicting that they'd have products in 3 months, or even 6 months, instead of 18-24 months, I'd be much more excited.

Lots of seemingly-promising materials technology falls down when people actually try to industrialize the manufacturing process. I don't see much sign from that article that they've actually overcome those hurdles. And those are the hurdles here -- we've been able to produce spider silk in small quantities since forever.

Maybe Bolt will do it! Someone will, eventually. But I just don't see any reason why this article couldn't have been written in 1995, which makes me wonder if in 2035, someone will write a functionally identical article, and some future skeptic will say, "I don't see why this article couldn't have been written in 2015."