It might be nice if just for once someone used the space program instead of computers as their technology referent.  After a half century of development, it's just gotten more expensive and more complicated.  Or look at medical science, for pete's sake.  You don't get the result you like just because you want it a lot.
  This artticle is just more King Canute. It struck me as another example of someone trying to spin reality away.  Without magic markets and magic technology the Wired way of life would be doomed; no one is going to be interested in wrist computers, Google Universe and AI when you can't heat a house.  Therefore if you say it can't happen often enough then it won't.