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To use a similar example, we've had fully-functioning jetpacks since the 1960's. They're just wildly impractical on a number of levels. And like others have said, there's no urgency to drive innovation because, even if you got over the technical limitations and mass-produced them, the actual consumer pool will inevitably be very low; everyone thinks they want jetpacks and flying cars, but give them a chance to think it over and your average citizen will quickly realize how ridiculously dangerous and undesirable such things would be to own and operate.