isn't it weird that you know, thirty/forty years ago everybody thought that by this time robots would have taken over and aliens would come to earth on vacation and uh, we would have invented the "orgasmatron"? (actually i guess we did do okay on that last point but the others?) it seems the best we do is one moon landing and touch-screen technology. that's it.

i guess it's either businsses not having the right motivations or the public being weary of progress and pushing back.

this guy alan patrick has an interesting idea that it's because people won't work together - that " the internet runs on love" - but i suppose the internet is no more immune to crappy humanity than anything else?