I think the point is 30 years is not really the distant future.
Have computers (for example) changed all that much in 30 years? Have televisions? Anything else? Besides the internet, which really was around in some form 30 years ago, is there any area of technology in society that has undergone anything resembling a paradigm shift, such as true AI would entail?
30 years isn't that long.
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