Well put.
And when the retiring head of Lockeed Skunnkworks notes that
‘If you can imagine it, we can already do it. We are at least 50 years ahead of everyone else on the planet.’
Folks just seem to have brain fade about the implications of that.
Exactly. That's the '50 years' I was referring to in post 40.
(While we're at it, I made a typo... engineer's should have been engineers' in that post.)