Hutchison self-admits to not being a scientist, he chanced upon the phenomena accidentally and it was sporadic at best. Hutchison was not intending to or actually logging down what led up to each event and the arrangement of the equipment.

Shoulders never sought to build businesses from his inventions, others developed his Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry technology and his micro-electronics manufacturing techniques. He was in it for the science and to understand what could be done and how. It is a very long road sometimes from a discovery of this magnitude to a real product and Shoulders was a man that like to discover, not deliver. Others appear to have delivered on various aspects. The core of his main work is not readily in the public domain.

In both cases the effects are so out of the realms of every day human experience, they do not capture enough of the right minds to develop them. Without a belief in the possible it is hard to advance it - and that is not to mention that once one understands what this can do, it either drives people to megalomania or a desire to see it not developed.