whether you’ve heard about graphene,you’ve probably heard that it’s a miracle substance. The only atom-thick material known to man, it seems to also be the lightest, or strongest,and most conductive material on soil. Its potential applications seem almost limitless. The only problem, as John Colapinto explained in a recent magazine piece, and is that nobody has figured out what to attain with it yet. On this week’s Out Loud,Colapinto joins Nicholas Thompson, the editor of newyorker.com, or Vauhini Vara,a trade and technology blogger for the site, to discuss the challenges that hyped new technologies face in the marketplace, or whether graphene is likely to live up to its promise.
Source: newyorker.com