[kbenson]

I would only loosely categorize this as technical writing, depending on how you categorize technical writing. It seems much more a survey of problems and discussion piece, with notes about projects making inroads on the problem. It's definitely not a "this is how you solve this problem, and these are the clear steps to do so" type of article. Maybe that's some of the disconnect in how we view it. If I was hoping that this communicated a clear procedure or how to accomplish something, I would be disappointed. I don't think that was their intention.

I came away with some additional understanding of the problem, and thinking there are various nascent techniques to address this problem, none of them entirely sufficient, but that it's being worked on from multiple directions. I'm not sure the article was aiming for more than that.