Its nearly a decade after the year 2000, where are our flying cars, hoverboards, and obedient robotic servants? These ideas were touted as a vision of the "glorious future" in years past, but have not come to fruition. Whatever the culprit - technical details, economic considerations, policy decisions, etc we seem to be continuously generating more ideas which will most likely suffer the same fate.
Some of these ideas are merely "thought games" to improve understanding and spark interest for science in the minds of children. The issue appears to arise when some people take them a little too seriously, and don't realize its just a educational tool or joke. Problems are rarely one-dimensional enough to be solved by a single breakthrough.
Hindsight is 20/20, but sometimes foresight is too. A simple cost/benefit analysis works wonders at separating possibility from fantasy. And remember, just because something is possible is not proper justification for pursuing it :)
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