There are countless inventions that weren't developed by more than one man.
AC current (Nikola Tesla), the first known scuba gear (Da Vinci).. So why can't this man have figured out this? Time will tell, but I for one is excited and hopeful. Like I said, you don't get away two million dollars by shrugging your shoulders and saying "I guess we were wrong". Dell also said they had enough money to complete what I imagine is some kind of working version of it. It's easy to be a critic. At one point people thought the earth was flat, and when proven wrong, they struggled to accept it. I don't think it's impossible. He's obviously onto something. I seriously doubt the government would just hand him the money like that. That's really the extend of it.
Critic or not, time will tell who was right. And I think I'm right in saying most of us are hopeful at least.
We could probably replace oil, but being a tin hat, I think the oil companies don't want that.
Now why would nVidia want this? Far reaching as it is, it makes sense. No need for a GPU, no more nVidia GPU's. That's a lot of money. Just an example obviosuly, I know they said they would take advantage of the GPU eventually. When there is money to be made, people will do just about anything to keep it away from the mainstream.
See? That's the problem, you can only rely wishful thinking and that is the only thing that UD has by his side.
"Some other people managed this or that, so why can't this man have figured out this?"
Because it's not the same thing at all. For instance Tesla didn't discover AC, it was a very well known concept long before he decided it was the best way of carrying power and he was far from being alone. But most importantly his tech and claims didn't go against the laws of physics, quite the opposite.
Same for Da Vinci, he created some tech long before anyone else even considered it, but it didn't go against the laws of physics that were very well known by then. Quite the opposite again, the relatively vast knowledge of that time fully supported his designs.
But you simply can't compress or condense or compact (the 3 actually mean slightly different things) data for 21 trilion "anything" to fit current technology. And this claim is supported by the fact that no one and neither he is showing 21 trillion, nor billion not even million anything on the demo, and it's not because they are not artists, but because it's the biggest flaw for that kind of tech, whether it is actually using voxels or point cloud data (far less posible with the latter).
Replication or using the proper term instancing is one of the strong points though, because the data is stored in "data trees" and in order to replicate a seemingly complicated and very detailed model, you only have to copy paste the parent "tree" and all the branches automatically come with it. So it's false and unrealistic to claim what he does, when showing what he is showing. And it's false and deliberately misleading to excuse that by saying we are not artists, because that's simply a lie. It's as if while trying to get a job as an assistant, I claim that I can write 10.000 words in just 60 seconds and when asked for proof I write "scam" and then ctrl+c and ctrl+v until I get a line, then copy paste that line until I get a large paragraph, then 10 paragraphs then 100 paragraphs and so on. If you really want to grasp at strws I DID "write up" 10.000 words, but this achievement is useless and my claim
within the context is a blatant lie.
EDIT: Oh and as a final touch. When confronted by the fact that I copy pasted the same word over and over I could simply say, "ey I'm not Shakespeare ok?"
but just imagine what writers could do with this ability...
Your comment was very condescending and insulting to anyone that is. 
