> “Four years is light years in technology,” [the local official] said. I wonder whether the journalist purposely used this as the article's final sentence to

> “Four years is light years in technology,” [the local official] said. I wonder whether the journalist purposely used this as the article's final sentence to demonstrate that politicians don't "get" science/technology... or maybe relating a length of time to a distance slipped past the writer and editor(s) as well.