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This has also happened 100 times correctly to reject actually bad new technologies for every time it has been applied to the wrong technology that turned out to be actually useful.
Are you referring to projects that conceptualize something, but in the end it doesn't come to fruition because it's not possible due to lack of funding, lack of interest, it's impossible, or there's no technology required to complete it?
I am referring to technological "innovations" that never made it because while they sounded good as an idea they turned out to be bad/useless in practice and also those that someone thought of in a "wouldn't it be great if we could do this" way but never really got a working implementation.
Flying cars might be a good, high profile example for the latter category. The former obviously has fewer famous examples because bad ideas that sound good at first are so abundant.