[knarf]

I want my flying car, my self cleaning home, and that beautiful Harriet looking lady from Mechanics Illustrated in the 50's that would greet me when I came home from work

(She DID provide sex, DIDN'T she ?)

[JimSEA]

You might want to look at cancer survival rates and their progress in the last sixty years. Radioactive waste disposal is a political problem, not a failure of science. Ditto nuclear power plants. Would you want to give up the last sixty years of science and technological advances?

[DoodleDawg]

Splitting the atom would bring us virtually unlimited cheap electrical power; antibiotics and vaccine technology (a la Salk/Sabin) would eliminate the scourge of infectious disease; and elucidation of the structure of DNA would lead to a cancer cure.

But 60-odd years later, we have radioactive waste; terrifying antibiotic resistant pathogens; and despite spending hundreds of billions of dollars on cancer research and mapping the human genome, are no closer to that elusive cure. As to DNA, its greatest contribution has been to forensic science, which no one predicted.

That's what you get for believing everything you read in "Popular Science".