>>11765070>human babies had been gene edited?still doesn't happen now (except in drastic cases)
>autonomous cars on the road?They really only do highways (which aren't hard). Remember when tesla premiered their parking lot feature?
>smart homes and smart speakers and smart lightbulbs and smart toasters?That shit is literally nothing. We could've done it before, hell look at the clap light. Barely even an convenience
>Higgs Boson or gravitational wave detectors?That's science, not tech. What has that empirically given us other than some niche physics.
>AI began wholesale replacing entire job segments?We aren't there yet. Automation has done that, but that's hardly new, just an improvement on fords assembly line.
>a private individual launched a car into deep space?Wow a rich did what nasa could do 50 years ago, I'm impressed. He must have a lot of money.
We are searching for the big leaps, large innovation which fundamentally changes the everyday life of people, like the smartphone did last decade.