Researcher Translation

December 22, 2009

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If a researcher says a cool new technology should be available to consumers in...	What they mean is...
The fourth quarter of next year	The fourth quarter of next year
Five years	Five years
Ten years	Ten years
25+ years	25+ years
We're not really looking at market applications right now.	We're not really looking at market applications right now.

Title text: A technology that is 'twenty years away' is twenty years away.