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The Price of Hype: The Public Now Has Unrealistic Timelines for Science
- dalke 12y agoThese are all entirely reasonable points. I do take some exception with the "now". Has it ever not been the case? Cold fusion. Real AI. Hotels in space. Nuclear powered cars and kitchen equipment. Self-guided cars by the 1990s. Robots as personal valets. Those are part of a long list of unrealistic expectations in the last century. (Okay, I think there's one non-reasonable point: I don't think the faster-than-light neutrino publication from OPERA was oversold sizzle.)