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Atlas Shrugged
Or carbon has made this redundant. Development of steel technology within cycling is pretty well at a dead end and has been replaced by Carbon which by all indications still has a way to go. Take a Specialized Aethos a mass production bicycle frame under 600 grams and reliable as any other.
There are a lot of bike builders still working in steel. We may not see steel in the TDF any time soon. However, we'll see a lot of steel in cargo bikes, folding bikes, touring bikes, BMX bikes, etc.
Perhaps nothing new will be thought up, but we already have the shaped tubes, and downtubes that are small at one end and large at the other end.