True, if they were indeed, just visions. But I assumed when the person predicting invoked a range of "5 to 10 years", that he was, indeed, putting an outside limit on the project.

Interestingly enough, I saw the same thing on the news about 10 years later and remembered that day in class, so many years before. At the time, television was a big part of my life, and I was looking forward to that milestone. Ironically, now I couldn't care much less.

My point is, sometimes people just spout off a big number of years, thinking that by the time 10 years has passed, everyone will have forgotten that they ever made the statement. Then if it does come to pass, they'll say, "See, I told you it would happen!"

After all, I certainly have no idea who actually said it. I just know that someone did say it--twice, and I remember it.