I read an essay a few years ago saying that the reason we aren't going into space or colonizing the oceans or any of that other neat stuff we were supposed to d

I read an essay a few years ago saying that the reason we aren't going into space or colonizing the oceans or any of that other neat stuff we were supposed to do, is that it is easier and more remunerative to make movies and games about doing it than to actually do it.