Tech That Flopped!

Sorry Teo, but if you post something you clearly don't know much about you may get a response from somebody who does know about it, and thus you learn something. You're welcome.

Success in terms of popularity often means mediocrity in terms of performance.

I agree 100%. Best example I can think of is the MP3 format.  Further, just because a product design caters to a niche market, it does not make it a flop, this is so strange to me. Porsche made a rear-engined car, vast majority of cars have engines in the front, so Porsche tech must be a flop!

In related news, in science, as of today:

"Quantum theory has many strange features compared to classical theory," Richens told Phys.org. "Traditionally we study how the classical world emerges from the quantum, but we set out to reverse this reasoning to see how the classical world shapes the quantum.

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The take-away is that all possible statements, theories and seeming rules of all objective scientific analysis all contain quantum entanglement. .... Which... means that objectivity is a fail.

That objectivity is not universal but in a localized bubble and outside of that, is, well, a pipe dream a forced projection, a non thing, in the overall analysis. A cute experiment and it can’t and does not exist. Subjectivity is illustrated by the same dominoes falling, to rule the roost in all facets.

"Objectivity is a fail" and "subjectivity will rule the roost in all facets" seem to be very objective statements. The assertion that ’everything is so complex that all interactions are too intricate for us to even begin to understand’ only opens the door that nothing we see or hear is real. So everything we think we know is in quicksand; not sure how that helps the discussion.

Actually quantum entanglement is not really generalizable to apply to everything. It's a specific quantum mechanics term. For example, the team of Chinese scientists who recently established the new distance record for teleportation relied on quantum entanglement. They didn't actually teleport a particle from one place to another like Jeff Goldblum in The Fly. 

Not to ruffle anyone's feathers, but how about liquid cables? Definitely a niche. Too early to say if it will stand the test of time?