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by rsynnott 238 days ago
> The important thing is that this is not going to be perpetually 20 years in the future like fusion. This is something that will happen.

Meanwhile, in 1950: "the important thing is that fusion is not going to be perpetually 20 years in the future like the eradication of all disease [there was a time in the 40s and 50s where people, a bit over-excited about then-new antibiotics and chemotherapy, often did believe this]. This is something that _will happen."