Things that should be here technologically already/Technology suppression

Charge a battery in 10 seconds. Already happening, have you looked at the energy recovery systems that are in use now in the new Formula 1 cars. There would be the slight problem that putting something the size of a car to your ear might be challenging. I have model helicopter batteries that are way higher capacity than a phone battery, and they can be charged in a short time period, but the downside of that is the fundamental issue that LiPo batteries can be dangerous, and unstable, which is not a good idea if millions of people are using the technology.

There is no doubt that we've not been seeing the real potential of alternate energy for vehicles and home heating and energy, the main reason being that there's no benefit in reducing energy consumption for governments, despite their weasel words and actions with things like carbon taxes and the like, because they get HUGE tax revenues from Oil, gas and electricity sales, can you imagine their reaction if we were using 10% of the energy we use now?

It would make huge sense to have a massive upgrade programme for home insulation, to help reduce the cost of keeping people comfortable in their homes, but the down side of that would be a huge reduction in revenue to the government, which they would have problems replacing. The reality is that it would make more sense to flatten a high proportion of the existing housing stock (even a lot of the relatively modern property) and rebuild them with new technology, but the "value" put on property makes that an impossible option, even though modern heating, water systems and other advances would reduce the cost of living in such houses by a massive percentage.

In the same vein, why do food products on sale in supermarkets have to have an expensive cardboard box that's twice the capacity of the plastic bag that's inside the box, and does a totally acceptable job of keeping the contents contained? That box costs a lot of money to produce, print, assemble and subsequently recycle or otherwise dispose of, increases the transportation and storage cost considerably, and it has very little relevance to the contents of the bag that's inside the box.

why has the beancounter mentality become so entrenched in society. They know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Why does the simplest of jobs now require 2 or 3 health & Safety committee meetings, a method statement that's the size of a small novel, a sheaf of licences and certificates that's almost as big, and the person doing the job to be either e member of a small and exclusive "club" that's allowed to do the job, or a member of a massively expensive regulatory body that is (supposedly) supervising the profession.

Why does recyclable waste have to be laboriously hand sorted before it can be properly recycled?

Why do high tech devices have menu structures with the most used user option at the bottom of the menu, with the options that get used once a year (like initial setup) at the top of the menu?

Why can't we have entertainment, (like TV or cinema) without the accursed adverts. All they do is produce generations or people who have at best a 20 minute attention span.

Why do modern entertainment systems have to have a forest of wires coming out of the back of them, with no way to make them tidy short of making massive holes in the furniture and walls in the area around them.

Why are things like lawnmowers, chilled delivery vehicles, waste collection trucks and the like so accursedly noisy?

Why is it so hard to get a reliable and acceptable speed internet access service regardless of the size of the community?

Why have computer operating systems become so large, bloated and unreliable when the hardware that they run on has become so fast, small and reliable?

Why can't any medical professional anywhere in the country get 24/7 instant access to any information that is needed about my medical history, my present medication regime, and any other issues that might be significant to my treatment?

Why can't my computer see my thoughts and convert what I'm thinking into text without the use of a slow keyboard?