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odograph @ Dec 18th 2005 11:05PM
So rollie, where's my jetpack? Where's my flying car? Where's my lunar colony? Where's my cure for the common cold? Where's my fusion power plant? Where's my superconducting high-tension wires (and motors and batteries)? Where's my ...
I am an engineer, I just understand the difference between problems we can get our arms around, and pie-in-the-sky promises.
Yes, we will absolutely get surprising new developments. I also predict they will be in left-field domains, where not so many people are working. Progress in well-understood, and well-funded, problem domains is slow hard work. And just because we want a solution, that doesn't mean we'll get one.
Engineering is not magic.