We are selling ads and moving money from one desk onto another instead of addressing antibiotic resistance and climate change.
We went fromom electricity to flight to nuclear to space flight to the internet in less than 150 years.
Its been less than 100 years since antibiotics were invented, so, sorry we aren't addressing antibiotic resistance at a fast enough pace for you.
Hope you don't mind all those vaccines that are keeping you healthy and providing here immunity: they've only been around for about 130 years.
It's the most innovative time in human history, despite your negativity.
1947?
Concorde was testing by 1969, but didn't carry passengers until 1976.
The USSR's Tu-144 actually beat Concorde on both dates -- 1968 and 1975. Though it also beat Concorde, by 25 years, on retirement from passenger service: 1978.