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With a short excursion into the history of Medical Informatics the fatal role of too far reaching promises is analysed. Famous persons and funding projects finally failed because they could not deliver. Especially leading-edge research and system developments risk to initiate new funds by promising routine availability much too early. While this can be excused for the first three decades of post-war development, it cannot be accepted that even today naive vendors and scientists looking for funding promise too much and thus endanger strategic developments.
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