Why modern science has largely been a disappointment

People appear to be disappointed with many things, including love, religion, spectator sports and cinema, but not science. Even other areas of exceptional human performance, like athletics, are attributed to ‘advances’ in science. In any case, good-natured science fantasy have been more prophetic than political dystopic fiction, like The Handmaid’s Tale, or the works of George Orwell, who got almost everything wrong, driven as he probably was by tuberculosis-induced gloom that generations of depressed intellectuals have misunderstood as political analysis. Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar talks of the same cute sexy science that is mentioned in Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, which was published in 1980, in Stephen Hawking’s Brief History of Time, published in 1988. You can argue that the Concorde’s failure suggests that it is not that we have not made advancements in science; it is just that those breakthroughs are yet to make commercial sense.