The first human flight on a motorized plane was accomplished by bicycle shop owners, Wright brothers, in a sleepy town called Dayton, Ohio. This was 1903. The so-called experts in MITs and Princetons of this World, swimming in resources, could not do so. There is a penalty of being experts. You see so many failures on a difficult task that you start believing that it cannot be done. Then, you no longer remain scientists or engineers. You become accountants. You keep a clear account of how and why the previous attempts failed. You belittle young scientists who dream to undertake that task. Wright brothers were far away from these experts. That is what worked for them.
At Intel, we had quarterly meetings on the state of our technology development. Those used to be quite remarkable meetings because the head of R&D would give us the big picture on where we failed, where we succeeded and how we succeeded and what challenges lie ahead in the technology that we were stiving to develop. He made an interesting statement once, "Experts are people who tell us why something cannot be done". And then he went on to give numerous examples of how technology faced a seemingly brick wall and how that was eventually overcome.
So, do not get bogged down by the so-called experts. Many of them have gone senile because of their own failures.
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