Not to mention research accumulates knowledge that can be tapped into later.

If it can't get out of the lab and onto the market today, there could be separate breakthroughs in the future that could help it.

Think of all those headlines of creating things with graphene and carbon nanotubes.

It's hyped up as this big revolutionary material that will change our society, but we can't make it at a cost effective scale.

If we ever do make it at scale, then we have so many practical uses ready to try out.

Or if we can't make it at scale, maybe we can find a very niche, but viable use for them that is worth the extremely high cost of them.

It'll always be 20 years away in mainstream public's head until it is right in front of our faces.

I predict entire fields will be mostly automated very sporadically, the first will make major headlines, until all of a sudden it goes into freefall.

No actual good UBI discussion will happen until a lot of very preventable unemployment suffering already occurred.

Society will eventually adapt to AI scams and related crimes, but a large vulnerable population of mostly elderly will be hit, major legislation and financial regulations will be reactionary to these after a year or two of chaos to curb the scams.