Re: Within our grasp - the OP's explanation
My point was that the phrase 'within our grasp' almost always over promises.
Computers are a good example. Semiconductors were discovered in the mid 19th century, decades before the electron was discovered. Decades later the transistor was proposed but it would be more decades before one was produced. Integrated circuits followed about a decade later and a decade after that we got the first microprocessor - the Intel 4004 in 1971. Five years later we got Woz's Apple 1 circuit board and in 1977 we got the first real personal computers: the Apple II, the PET 2001 from Commodore Business Machines, and the TRS-80 Model I from Tandy Corporation).
Implementation of ideas takes time. And, as they say, "There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip."
But I remain hopeful of eventual success.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
