Will the Space Industry be Like the Segway?
Listening to: Running - Evermore
Doogie Howser forwarded me this insightful article by Jeff Foust. Foust toys with the idea of the space industry being a solution looking for a problem:
The Segway and the space industry, in essence, share a common conundrum: they offer advanced technical solutions that fail to solve the problems of most of its potential customers, and their high prices suppress the casual experimentation that might stimulate the development of new markets.



July 9th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
[...] A little while back I linked to an article about space flight being a solution looking for a problem. [...]