Timeline Skepticism

Comments sarcastically doubt or mock promised timelines for tech projects or milestones, predicting delays to future years like 2025, 2030, or beyond.

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Activity Over Time

2007
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2008
13
2009
27
2010
27
2011
39
2012
31
2013
67
2014
68
2015
67
2016
111
2017
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2018
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2019
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2020
286
2021
306
2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
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2026
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Keywords

economist.com 2030 2025 2019 year til 2024 targets 2022 2021 2020

Sample Comments

glouwbug Feb 24, 2020 View on HN

It'll be 2027 before we know it

EGreg Jan 3, 2025 View on HN

wait til 2027, you’ll see the result :-P

gjvc Jun 21, 2023 View on HN

unlikely to be 2023, now, is it?

bdangubic Dec 31, 2025 View on HN

so we should expect to see it by 2065?

pishpash Dec 26, 2017 View on HN

Wasn't it supposed to be by 2025?

misiti3780 Jul 26, 2022 View on HN

sure they arn't .... let's revisit in 2025

thesuitonym Dec 18, 2023 View on HN

"Soon" in this case means 2025 or later.

u801e Oct 7, 2022 View on HN

Hopefully sometime before 2038.

BurningFrog Jan 31, 2020 View on HN

I guess we'll see by 2040 :)

jazzyjackson Jun 24, 2022 View on HN

Well you've got til 2040 to get around to it before next time :)