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You could has has, but not in our crony capitalist environment, which stifles true innovation and hides the best ideas or our smartest people behind trade secrets, patent thickets, and technology obfuscation. Sure we have ipads, so what. We only have them because we had a works program for egg heads back in the late 60's doing something interesting like the moonshot. That technology and developed talent was subsequently parasitized by Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and other capitalist scum who have given up only crumbs since. If we wanted this future, we could have had it, but we sold it off to billionaire hoarders instead. People like Elon Musk are not the solution. The solution is instead of spending 600 billion on murderiing people overseas for nonrenewable resources, invest that back home in our best and brightest, most of whom waste all their time spinning wheels to nowhere on Wallstreet figuring out new and more clever ways of robbing your grandma of her life's savings.