unproven

Production engineers are hesitant to use unproven technology when $$$ are on the line.

Pretty sure this is unproven and, regardless, had nothing to do with the hack.

Given that this is an unproven experiment that could potentially be misinterpreted as something more, that could a feature, not a bug.

Then again, this is a strictly technology site and spiritual matter is seen as evil and unproven factor in the ecosystem of Earth.

Other opportunities were so early that while demand was apparent for incumbent providers these new teams were unknown and unproven how will they disrupt?

They have a good idea how to evaluate companies that already have users and customers, but no idea when it comes to raw, unproven ideas.

New, unproven and expensive/risky technologies aren't a great candidate for crowdfunding.

Plus some of the, till then, unproven, claims of disgusting practice ended up being proven and therefore repeatable without risk - which was not the case beforehand.

An ability that's hypothesized for humans, but yet unproven.

I would feel very uncomfortable exposing anything written in assembly to the public net, and doubly so if it used an unproven TLS stack written in the same.

Netflix could live off third-party back catalog content as long as it was essentially alone in the streaming space -- which only lasted as long as that mechanism was a relatively unproven business model.

Instead of power being consolidated in a handful of powerful companies, it's now consolidated into one very young and very unproven company whose sole motivation in life appears to be selling ads against other people's original content.

I'd definitely categorize that under "experimental power sources and unproven physics." Perhaps you are thinking of a different article?

And actually "its potential effectiveness in removing CO2 from the atmosphere remains unproven."

Well, it would be pretty useless if we named every unproven theory simply "don't know".

Basically I think he's saying we should accept flawed and unproven technologies in the name of progress because "eh, any new risk is small compared to the risks we already face anyways".