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Sure but the revolutionary cancer treatments and biotech stuff made it to market and now we have a new generation of cell and gene therapies that are incredibly effective send powerful used in patients. And mrna technology deployed to hundreds of millions of people to end a global pandemic. Biotech has been moving so fast since the human genome project that it makes no sense to call it a boy who cried wolf situation.

Also google assistant is pretty nuts if you step back and think a out it. Ai has been doing pretty alright as well. IDK what exactly your expectations are for revolutionary treatments and powerful AIs but what we have already is pretty insane.




All of those things have been in development longer than graphene. mRNA was discovered in the 1950s.


My comment wasn't about the timeline, it was about how those did truly materialize and aren't crying wolf situations




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