Let me know when it's ready to use without a phone number.
As it is, I lose my identity if I switch phone numbers (say, I move to another country). Even worse, someone else might get my old identity when my old phone number is recycled.
The article actually says that NASA didn't invent Teflon. The fact that Teflon pans were in ads does not invalidate the claim that NASA popularised it though.
This of course follows the point of the article amazingly well: Crypto developers didn't invent zero knowledge proofs, but they are bringing them into the mainstream and making them more available general software development.
As it is, I lose my identity if I switch phone numbers (say, I move to another country). Even worse, someone else might get my old identity when my old phone number is recycled.