alt Hacker News> Literally, things everyone said would take 30 or 100 years, happen within months.
"Everyone"? Plenty of people in the 50s said we'd have sentient humanoid robots before the year 2000. And flying cars. Sure, many people underestimate the rate of change. But techno-optimists have consistently overestimated it, and they still do.
I was sloppy. I didn't mean to include science fiction authors, or extreme futurists.
"everyone", being, a typical average of realistic predictions.
In the 90's. I remember people talking about voice recognition will take 50 years. Let alone understanding. Now this is an easy base line feature.
Let alone protein folding.