I went to school in Oxfordshire in the '80s. Some visiting profs from JET joked that fusion was 25 years away then.
Back then things were centered around "can we even do this?" and now it's more of "how do we keep this running more than 5 minutes?".
Back then things were centered around "can we even do this?" and now it's more of "how do we keep this running more than 5 minutes?".