> Whenever a new technology emerges, along with it always emerge naysayers who claim that the new technology could never work
There's some survivorship bias going on here – you only consider technologies which succeeded, and find examples of people scrutinising them beforehand. However, we know that not every nascent technology blossoms; some are really effective, but can't find adopters; some are ahead of their time; some are cost-prohibitive; and some are outright scams.
It's not a given that every promising new technology is a penicillin – some might be Theranos.
There's some survivorship bias going on here – you only consider technologies which succeeded, and find examples of people scrutinising them beforehand. However, we know that not every nascent technology blossoms; some are really effective, but can't find adopters; some are ahead of their time; some are cost-prohibitive; and some are outright scams.
It's not a given that every promising new technology is a penicillin – some might be Theranos.