You raise a very good point here. Of course it's OK, sometimes even useful, to dream, to fantasize about the future. What I'm a bit allergic to is when a writer reads a news article about some kind of technological advancement and immediately sells it to their readers as the next big thing that will change everything.

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Thomas Baumgartner
Thomas Baumgartner

Written by Thomas Baumgartner

Physicist (PhD), engineer, software developer, data manager / analysist, photographer, musician, and (as of late) writer. Lives in Vienna, Austria.

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