And the jury’s actually out

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

21:43 Oct 2, 2015

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English term or phrase: And the jury’s actually out

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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.

Mikhail Korolev KudoZ activity Questions: 2422 (3 open) (1 without valid answers) (10 closed without grading) Answers: 130
Local time: 14:56

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

Explanation:
I would say

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"actually" in this case means that nobody's sure ... in fact etc.

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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

Selected response from:

David Hollywood
Local time: 08:56

Grading comment

Many thanks to everyone.

Thank you, David.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

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4 +5

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

David Hollywood

4 +2

there's no consensus

George Rabel

no decision has been made or the answer is not yet certain

acetran

Answers

6 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

and the jury’s actually out there's no consensus

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

George Rabel
Local time: 07:56
Works in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 12

31 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

and the jury’s actually out

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

David Hollywood
Local time: 08:56
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 116

Grading comment

Many thanks to everyone.

Thank you, David.

3 hrs confidence:

and the jury’s actually out no decision has been made or the answer is not yet certain

Explanation:
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...

acetran
Native speaker of:

Hindi,

English
PRO pts in category: 12

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