Yahoo! News - Engineer Builds Robot That Walks on Water
" It could be called a mechanical miracle — a robot that walks on water. With inspiration from nature and some help from research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (news - web sites), a research team led by Carnegie Mellon engineering assistant professor Metin Sitti has built a tiny robot that can walk on water, much like insects known as water skimmers, water skaters, pond skaters or Jesus bugs."
It seems to me that since the 19th century when science understood everything as a competition (Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche etc) and the 20th century when science understood everything as a social engineering proces (Freud, Wittgenstein, Sartre etc) in this century the pace of innovations is just so high that taking one into production means being economicaly challenged for losing money.
For example: look only at the telecommunications industry and the amount of groundcabels.
newest innovations:
nanotecnology
superconductors
