The MOST INSANE ENGINES which have oil magnates starts to twitch eye

despite the abundance of high-performance alternative technological developments, the whole world is still struggling to actively cling to the long obsolete technology, because it is beneficial to the powerful.
This happens with all other areas of science, in which we have long been marking time.
Basic science - simple and unpretentious, serves the interests of the money bags. But on the basis of her research, we should have to teleport and move in the distant cosmos at the quantum, or essential, or even some kind of fundamentally different technologies...
Modern science fiction films prepare the population for the fact that in the near future we are waiting for a new middle ages. And the basis for all this, oddly enough, digitalization. Ideally, it should be a complete ignorance, corrupted by all sorts of digital things and a significantly reduced population, which is fully dependent on digital technologies and policies of consumption of energy resources.
The whole life of the representative of this impersonal mass should be under the total control of digital devices, whether it is a trip to the doctor or receiving a salary. So that, if necessary, a person can be erased with just one click.
Progress, which has been making leaps and bounds since the late 19th century, suddenly stopped in the area of the 70s, as the rapid pace of development began to threaten the system of power, which was effective for more than one Millennium. Easily manageable people could get out of control. Therefore, progress has been adjusted so as not to destroy the well-established system of management of the human masses. After all, when there is obscurantism around, it is much easier to rule.
Serious space research and flights have stopped, cold fusion projects have stalled, and many others. It all began with the infamous report of the club of Rome "Limits of growth", ordered by the Western elites, which postulated the reduction of the earth's population and the rejection of technological progress and rollback in the actual slave system.