>>16710648 (OP)I recommend reading frontier scientific papers. Scientists have been working quite a while on very groundbreaking technology that simply had a longer gestation period due to its sheer complexity.
AI, gene editing, cures and treatments for AIDS, cancer, full self-driving, actual viable solar technology, etc.these are all technologies that have finally started to gain serious ground in the last three or so years.
The reason you haven't heard about more of the science is because it's harder to acces when results have not yet been made in the market en masse.
However, all of these technologies are just now being released to the public or are beginning to enter serious human trials, so expect far more innovations in the next ten years than we have had in many years priot (this has already started as of the early 2020s', so perhaps even less time). Also, if you wanna keep up with science better in a casual search engine type way without having to sift through popsci articles and long and drawn out YouTube videos, just ask Grok. Better than Google for general info collection imo.
The future is looking bright