[wladimir]

I agree with the sentiment. If we only worry about the social, society gets tied up in trivialities. It extends the echo chamber for the same old things.

On the other hand, this is simply what the media is obsessing over. It's easy to understand convenience apps, but not new technology for which the implications on large scale are still pretty unknown.

It's all still happening: Better and smaller chips, commercial spaceflight, more efficient solar energy, interesting developments in DNA sequencing. Real high tech. Just look past the attention whores.