The bigthink article took a joke out of context and called it a prediction. Here is the full NYT article text, the author is clearly making a joke about planes

The bigthink article took a joke out of context and called it a prediction. Here is the full NYT article text, the author is clearly making a joke about planes needing to evolve wings like birds did: http://www.bretswanson.com/index.php/2016/02/pessimistic-predictions-which-do-not-fly/ http://www.bretswanson.com/index.php/2016/02/pessimistic-pre... Whatever conclusion the big think article draws is on a misreading of the source NYT article.