Yeah... where are my promised robot minions friends !
How am I are we supposed to all have our private space stations if we haven't even put one up yet !
I suspect it might have something to do with us relying on governments to bring about this superb techno future.
Governments are mostly innovative in times of crisis, and that's the main reason we ever went to the moon, to one up the Russians and have better missile/rocket tech than them.
Now that we're in relatively peaceful times, Governments don't seek to upset the balance, but preserve it.
They seem to thrive more on controlled environments, and relatively gullible/stupid people. They wouldn't want everyone to be intelligent because then they'd lose control, they couldn't do more or less everything they want without objections.
Well said.
I believe the reason we're finally advancing on the technological part is the same that's got a lot of people really worried.
Corporations taking on more and more power.
And since they're nearly all cash-flow positive (which nearly no government appears to be...) they can innovate at a much faster rate than.
That and most of the big one's nowadays have been created in an ambience of innovation, and seek to become better at everything faster than their competitors.
I personally think this is good, as long as we remember to remind them from time to time about all those pesky "human rights" and "natural preservation" issues the bigger Corps tend to forget all about in their hurry XD
There is definitely a balance that needs to be maintained. Many good points.