FRINGE!!! Come on people - aliens I won't belive in til I see them - but a largely capitalist world run on the lines of: We have to proceed, so we will invent but if we give everyone all these cool toys, people will stop buying. If Tesla could have thought up "practically free" energy over 100+ years ago, are you seriously trying to tell me that over all that time noone has been able to go further?
The man who invents (for arguements sake) a battery tht will power a laptop for 2 years would be silenced before they could industrialize something like that...
Why? Because where would the profit be in a battery that lasts two years? Now extrapolate this to other fields and you'll see that governments (regardless of their leanings) will keep everything hush-hush just to get more money out of people.
Then again, I could just be a crackpot!
