Yes, we did have people with vision. The CSIRO had the first general purpose computer, and the government at the time declined to fund it and put the money into cloud seeding! CSIRO also had the original zeroxing patents, the government scrapped the patents. The CSIRO also held the atomic absorption spectrophotometer patents, gave them to a small listed Melbourne company who were then taken over for less than one hundred thousand pounds ($200,000). Gene shears. And so it goes. The CSIRO were working on a very high temperature air cooled reactor, but this was canned. And Australia marketed the first drone and the USA used it to spy on China and North Vietnam. Jindivik. Look it up.
