Until everyone agrees on what cold fusion is, there is no point to
inventing a new name for it.

It does not matter in any case, because the name is not the thing. Many
words are technically inaccurate, obsolete or misleading. A "solid-state
disk" (SSD) is not disk-shaped, and a round shape tells you nothing about
the function of an SSD. A computer folder does not fold.

Words such as "folder" and folder icons on the computer screen are
skeuomorphs. When my daughter was around 10 she came to my office and saw a
real manilla folder for the first time, and said, "so *that's* what it
shows on the computer screen."

- Jed

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