Technological advancement moving at a painfully slow pace...
Don't get me wrong we, as a species, have made huge advancements in technology in just the past 50 years but nowadays I get the feeling that some major technological breakthroughs haven't happened because certain groups of very powerful people are deliberately suppressing development because if they happened, those people wouldn't have it easy in their lives anymore... and by that I mean they wouldn't make as much money as they're used to making. These people (whoever they are) don't care about the future, all they care about is now, the rich lives they live... and fuck the generations of humanity that live on after they die.
I'm not talking about flying cars either... because they are genuinely a bad idea, humankind can't drive properly on the ground, let alone in the air!
What I mean is stuff, for example, like alternative power sources for vehicles, hydrogen for instance... I doubt OPEC would like it if all the worlds' vehicles could all run off water, because of that, we're still lugging around with internal combustion fired by petrol and diesel.
Battery development seems to have stopped, the latest smartphones seemed to have gone backwards when it comes to power management... and it still takes ages to charge any battery up and why? Because if batteries' capacities were improved and it if could take less than a few minutes to charge them, they could go into vehicles, improve their ranges, make it easier to re-charge (i.e. quick stop at a power/petrol station) and no-one would need need fuel for their vehicles anymore... OPEC anyone?
Mobile phone signals - 4G, is shit, it's like some sort of half-assed attempt to get broadband speeds via cellular signal, yet whenever lots of people start to use it in an enclosed space, like at a stadium for instance it grinds to a halt! It's the 21st Century I shouldn't have to wait 5 minutes for a webpage to open on my mobile device, shouldn't get cutouts when talking to people, shouldn't have artefacts appear when streaming content! Why? Because the cellular companies don't want to invest more money into more cell towers or improve their efficiency because they have greedy shareholders to satisfy!
A new rocket engine, called the EmDrive has been announced that could get people to Mars a LOT faster, yet it's development is being hampered 'cos some scientists who's voices are louder than the rest state that it breaks Newton's Third Law. Now, whilst I respect Newton and his ilk, I really don't accept that that is ALL we know about the Universe and that Physics just stops at what scientists said hundreds of years ago. Why don't they just fucking build it, launch it into space and fucking try it out?!
It's stuff like that - it get's 'delayed', or it's science funding gets cut and re-channelled to helping war-weary immigrants... when what they don't realise is that forging ahead with these breakthrough science projects, in the long run, helps humankind and ultimately reduces the amount of war weary immigrants in the first place!
Nope there are people who won't allow that, they make too much money and everything is alright as it is right now thank you very much.
Yet another reason why this planet wanting woefully.
