We lost a lot of potential advancement when the Texas Super Collider got cancelled for 'budget considerations' - after many millions had already been spent excavating and preparation. Now that's strictly Europe's domain with CERT and they damn sure share their discoveries with our enemies before us. Penny wise and pound foolish, long gone politicians.
Hopefully A.I. will help us get to the future and not get to the position of allowing us to. As the movie said "Skynet decided our fates in a microsecond."
most people think that CERN is a job security program for physicists.
The real ground breaking work in fusion is being done by small fusion companies around the world—but most especially in the USA. A couple of fusion companies have already promised to provide power for the grid between 2028-2031.
I surely do hope that humans will always have qualities that the AI doesn’t have.
The future is not fixed right now.