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Comment by jdlshore

15 hours ago

> Humans have a bad track record predicting where a technology is going.

Specifically, they tend to overestimate the short term and underestimate the long term, or so it’s said.

(Amara’s law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Amara )

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