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Originally Posted by Alisa
Sure but I think we're a heck of a lot closer to that now with our existing tech.
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Sure we are: everyday we are closer than the day before (I'm not sarcastic), but as Shaggy said it's 20 years that we get closer and closer without reaching it.
I like to think of it as an asymptote: we'll get closer and closer without actually doing
exactly what we want. To tell the truth, I see many goals that technology strives to reach as asymptotes, and more often than not these goals have been set by sci-fi literature.