These seem like corner cases. Futurists are typically too aggressive with timelines, even when they get the predictions right.
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They are rarer, but not corner cases. I think there's a definite non-measure-zero set here defining a likely-to-be-faster-than-predicted phenomena.
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Heavier than air flying machines famous quote. Many quotes in early 1900s about how chemistry and physics were essentially solved with no new problems. Also lots of advances in early rocketry and then going to the Moon but I can't think of a good quote for that one.
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To clarify I'm looking for earlier-than-predicted, not impossibility assertions
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Earlier? It was expected in 2014!
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I'd put Norman Borlaug Green Revolution in this bucket. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution …
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All-knowing surveillance state
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Computers that can fit into a single room.
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