I just read a devastating take on Graphene written by the New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/material-questionHere are just a few quotes from the article:
"I.B.M. is all bummed out"
“A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism,”
"Nobody stands to benefit from giving the bad news"
not “a sufficient scientific advance.”
"“You’d have to change it so much that it’s no longer graphene,”
"Nearly every scientist I spoke with suggested that graphene lends itself especially well to hype."
"Guha lamented the “excessive hype” that has surrounded graphene"
“If there is too much hype at the discovery stage and the product doesn’t live up to the hype, that’s one way of its becoming disappointing and abandoned, eventually.”
“People put unrealistic time lines on us,”
the reporter asked, ‘When could these be ready?’ I said, ‘Two years’—and it was nonsense. I just felt so excited about it.”
"We work on whatever suits our fancy"
"The progress of a technology from the moment of discovery to transformative product is slow and meandering; the consensus among scientists is that it takes decades, even when things go well."
"the hype might not have been so disproportionate. But then there wouldn’t have been the same appetite for investment.”
"hype is necessary to attract development dollars"
“So we always have to have some humility. A couple of bicycle mechanics could come along and prove us wrong.”
"stubborn conviction that an obvious obstacle can be overcome"
Now that we’ve got this stuff, what do we do with it?
“The more innovative—the more breaking-the-mold—the innovation is, the less likely we are to figure out what it is really going to be used for.”
"Samsung, the Korea-based electronics giant, holds the greatest number of patents in graphene"
“I’m going to come in here and count money every day.”
“We’re going to be rich someday, aren’t we?”
*Note: Quotes totally out of context
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