The thing that's missing from the list are the tools and inventions which people had to be conviced of the usefulness of and ended up being useless. "This happ

The thing that's missing from the list are the tools and inventions which people had to be conviced of the usefulness of and ended up being useless. "This happened for X so it will happen for Y" isn't an argument on its own - you either need to make a connection between X and Y, or say something fundamental about Y which makes the statement true.