I don't think it's a knock on the original prediction to say it didn't turn out to be true. In fact, at the time it probably felt like a pretty conservative prediction. That being said, if you think back to the year 2000, we were pretty far from building such a machine at that time.
To me it's an interesting lesson in how hard it is to predict technology advances which still applies to our own predictions of the future.
To me it's an interesting lesson in how hard it is to predict technology advances which still applies to our own predictions of the future.