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Unfortunately we are not in state of constant economy grow, now economy in recession and have great deficit, so money are expensive, so investments must be returned within short time interval, so need extremely high margins.

Question is, if people invent lot of things, totally worth about $1000B in just ONE YEAR, and now clearly seen less then 1/10 of this number.

Examples could be fully autonomous car autopilot, robot capable to replace 90% of building industry workers. They are possible, but not seen in ONE YEAR time frame.




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