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I actually heard and memorized the opposite : people tend to overestimate what they can do in 10 years (for example, in 1980, some people thought flying cars would be a thing in year 2000) and they underestimate what happens in 1-3 (for example, our smartphones or computers get twice as fast, but the change is so incremental that people don't notice it)



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