There has been a lot of social progress in reality. More households with computers and in more modern times, smartphones galore. Engineering of very tiny scales

There has been a lot of social progress in reality. More households with computers and in more modern times, smartphones galore. Engineering of very tiny scales has grown at a strong pace especially given the difficulties and expenses of working at the smaller scales and the huge amount of mystery that still is there for how materials behave in small dimensions/quantities. Infrastructure has improved. Internet, Wireless Cell Coverage, etc. These things have been limited not just by the available technology but by the available money. Solar panels have gained enormous advances in terms of price and even pretty great advances in efficiency and other technological feats. Agriculture has been heavily researched and arguably improved. (although there is a large discussion which seems ready to turn into a movement before too long...of getting more investment into aquaponics, hydroponics, vertical farming, permaculture...not large monoculture farms and water pollution from agri-chemicals) Software has come a really long way in the last few decades. Accessibility of data. Price of data storage has plummeted rather fantastically. What still needs focus IMO is the sort of 'application of the application' ie. the use of inventions beyond just their function, what is their function ultimately solving for humanity?