Oct 2, 2015 21:43
8 yrs ago
English term

And the jury’s actually out

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Hello everyone,

Singularity advocates will argue that future is arriving faster than it's ever arrived... ***And the jury’s actually out***. Big S curves are of course created of lots of little s curves. And in Ray’s books he has some very provocative diagrams showing the steady increase. But it all depends on the frame of reference, if you look at it over 10,000 years of course it's an upward trending line. We don’t live for 10,000 years, at least not yet

Does the phrase in question mean "it's not certain yet, we don't know exactly yet."
In other words, is it another version of the idiom "the jury is (still) out on something", or does it mean sometjing else?

Thank you.

Responses

+5
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Selected

we don't really know yet and there's still a lot of debate about it

I would say

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Note added at 35 mins (2015-10-02 22:18:14 GMT)
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"actually" in this case means that nobody's sure ... in fact etc.

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Note added at 36 mins (2015-10-02 22:19:26 GMT)
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the fact of the matter is that etc.

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Note added at 51 mins (2015-10-02 22:34:47 GMT)
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as a matter of fact, nobody really knows
Peer comment(s):

neutral Cilian O'Tuama : and your final suggestion is...?
41 mins
I think you're quite capable of making your choice of my options
agree Veronika McLaren : the last, short answer probably suffices
1 hr
thanks Veronika
agree B D Finch
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agree Darius Saczuk
15 hrs
agree AllegroTrans
1 day 21 hrs
agree Phong Le
4 days
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Many thanks to everyone. Thank you, David."
+2
6 mins

there's no consensus

That's that way I see it. I think you got the right idea. I don't think it means anything else
Peer comment(s):

agree Shera Lyn Parpia
7 hrs
Thank you
agree Darius Saczuk : Yes, this is what it basically means.
15 hrs
Thank you
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no decision has been made or the answer is not yet certain

If the jury is still (actually) out on a subject, no decision has been made or the answer is not yet certain.

Example: The jury's still out on whether animal experiments are really necessary. We asked people to comment on the latest male fashions, but it seems the jury's out.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/the jury is out

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/the-jury-...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the jury is s...




Peer comment(s):

neutral B D Finch : Not "decision", so much as "consensus" in this context.
9 hrs
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