Because writers generally /hate/ to write about a better world as a result of a new technology as they see it as boring and somehow disrespectful to real proble

Because writers generally /hate/ to write about a better world as a result of a new technology as they see it as boring and somehow disrespectful to real problems. Look at how "cure for cancer gone wrong" is a cliché for causing undead monsters in modern times, how people missed the point of a Bond Villain plot creating a universal flu vaccine as cover for a plan to create a world devestating pandemic and concluded that a flu which contains all possible immune triggers to make a vaccine produce antibodies for all of them would be a hazard instead of a cover story. Personally I am so goddamned sick and tired of the "Frankenstein complex" where any new technology is treated as a nascent apocalypse and "they should have known better than to make an axe because somebody would use it to cleave a skull" mentality.