According to the latest developments that’s not the case. I read this article from a Spanish science blog a few months ago comparing the technological breakthroughs for computer science vs nuclear fusion and the looked very similar, just 10-15 years behind. I can’t find it at the moment, but it’s definitely a very interesting topic.
It’s like this recent news of this computer beating a top player of Go. They predicted in '97 it’d take 50 years to achieve anything similar, it’s taken less than 20. The pace we develop technology nowadays it’s just insane and luckily some people are using those resources for useful purposes.