Cisco hyperbole and other foolishness

A recent web ad by Cisco asserts that robot interfaces are part of "pure research".

A Cisco vice-president in a long-running ad on MSNBC claims that the next generation will be able to see whatever they want, wherever they want.  Will that generation be living on another planet?  Apparently you don't need to know much history to predict the future.

Then there is the CNN headline to report that new planets have been found "in the Milky Way".  Did they really think that we are spotting star wobbles in another galaxy?  In the Andromeda Galaxy? The Whirlpool Galaxy?

You might as well report that more species of salt-water fish have been found - and that they live in the ocean.  Or that more craters have been found on the moon - and that they are on the surface.  Or that you don't need to know much to be licensed as a journalist under the law proposed in Quebec ...