I mean if every headline about massive breakthroughs was the full truth all our appliances would be powered by tiny nuclear power plants and we would fly around with our jetpack. Cancer would be but a distant memory and world hunger a non issue because vertical farms would be literally in every home.

I’m from the school of “capitalism stops progress when there’s not profit to be made”.

So all these things could have come true if someone didn’t stop them because they were going to lose money.