I wonder if it also is an indication that we've covered most of the low hanging fruit of the major needs facing humans - the part that we could do with technolo

I wonder if it also is an indication that we've covered most of the low hanging fruit of the major needs facing humans - the part that we could do with technology that assumed unlimited resources - and now we are faced with the much harder problem of maintenance and scaling access to the benefits of technology without huge environmental, health, and societal damage. Self driving cars (road safety, congestion?), renewable energy (atmospheric CO2, air pollution), etc seem to fit that motivation. The next quantum leaps here seem to be things like teleportation (for transportation), transhumanism (for "life extension"), or interplanetary colonization (for ?). All seem like very remote possibilities today.