Viral time-travel quip makes the case that materials science is civilization's real bottleneck
moultano · x · 2026-09-08
A widely shared quip: impressing people 400 years in the past with your knowledge is easy, but doing it 400 years in the future is the real test. The poster's takeaway — the bottleneck for technological leaps has always been materials science, not ideas.
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