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Have you heard about the first lighting network purchase?
Someone used Lightning Networks mainnet to purchase a VPN Router. This may have been the first ever physical purchase on LN!

I haven't heard anything, but it sounds pretty amazing, what is the future of this technology?

The Lightning Network could help Bitcoin become faster and cheaper to use

to my mind, LN is an unnecessary thing. It's pointless to create a payment channel for the sole purpose of sending an off-chain transaction, since it requires a transaction on-chain to open the channel (and another one to close). You might as well just send an on-chain transaction instead; you do not need the LN.