[philwelch]

There’s another part of this story that Wikipedia leaves out

The other two original Power Mac models had the code names “Piltdown Man” and “Cold Fusion”—not exactly the sort of thing someone like Sagan would want to be implicitly associated with.

[nailer]

Why would Sagan not want to be associated with cold fusion?

[AlotOfReading]

Because it was only like 5 years after Fleischmann and Pons sparked headlines in every major newspaper as scientific frauds?

[philwelch]

After a few weeks of excitement over the Fleischmann/Pons thing, cold fusion has never since been taken seriously by fusion researchers. It's a dead idea as far as I'm aware.

[kijin]

Perhaps Sagan had undisclosed resentment toward Adobe ColdFusion as well.