If you did you would have seen that I did read the article and saw no practical application affecting the common man in the next X years.
I'm not saying the research shouldn't be done.
Great things have come out of research that no one thought was important.
I wanted to know if anyone saw a practical application for this in the next 7 years.
Yes. The deduced implication, backed up by later posts, was "if nothing practical comes of this in 7 years then it's worthless, so don't bother."