When sputnik and Apollo 11 fired the imagination... everyone began predicting that by the end of the century… — Yuval Noah Harari
When sputnik and Apollo 11 fired the imagination... everyone began predicting that by the end of the century, people will be living... on Mars and Pluto. ...[N]obody foresaw the Internet.
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