Other Red Sox Technologies

Arnold Kling wote a recent Tech Central Station column on “Red Sox technologies”:

Here is a list of some well-known Red Sox technologies.

 

• Micropayments
• E-books
• Speech Recognition
• Video Conferencing
• Social Networking Software
• Virtual Classrooms

 

There are other Red Sox technologies:

• Aircars
• Controlled nuclear fusion
• Space industrialization
• Household robots

Those are the technologies of the future and they always will be. It's a well-known fact (and a running gag) that controlled nuclear fusion has been thirty years away for the past fifty years.

On the other hand, those are technologies that affect the world of atoms, not the world of bits. I suppose a better metaphor would be a perpetually-unsuccessful team from an industrial city instead of an academic city. Maybe we can call them “Cubs technologies.”