Science and Technology is less interesting

Sure, I love technology news now, especially when the internet is involved, we're at such an interesting point in its history however I can't help thinking recently that 50 years ago everything was so much more exciting.
This week marks 40 years since man landed on the moon, now seriously wow! No one had done that before and most folk were god fearing back then, what a turning point in the history of man?! And where did it go from there? Well the space race sort of pissed off and no one is living on the moon in a bio-field-geodetic-synthetic atmosphere dome sort of thing, which sucks.
Secondly I was reminded of how literally incredible Concorde was; it got from New York to Paris in 3 and a half hours, not only is it stupidly fast but it looks like the coolest thing ever, it literally could join the Thunderbirds. No longer does it fly and no longer can the public travel at SuperSonic speeds, I can't imagine what its like to tell people I've traveled with such haste that sounds can't even catch me, Super Sonic as it were.
Thirdly I just watched BBC South News and found out its the 50th Anniversary of the Hovercraft this weekend. The technology department at Solent University is named after its inventor; Christopher Cockerell. Now don't get me wrong the Hovercraft is the biggest pile of shit when it comes to personal mobility because when you decide you need to turn its to late, turn and lean as much as you like but your gonna get impaled on whatever your trying to avoid because they simply don't turn! Anyone who tried to play Hover! on Windows 95 will know what I'm talking about. The idea is there but its not quite there, until hovering is exactly like the Hover board in Back to the Future II no one cares. Never the less the idea never developed, looking at the first one that crossed the english channel isn't that different to today's latest model, nowadays they've whacked a skirt on it and put a bigger fan on the back.
So why don't things that promise to be awesome amount to anything? Ideally I want to be traveling to my 2nd home on the moon in a Galactic Concorde and watching the Hovercraft Olympics on my 1 Terabyte internet connection recieving iPhone 3GS GTi Space tourer.



Find more awesome pics of space houses and that http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/in_pictures/6210518.stm