So, I would call most technology people actually see and use, "trickle down technology".
For example, satellites could read the date on a dime sitting flat on the ground from space by the 1970s and Electron particle beam generators could lay waste to a whole nation from space by the 1970s. However, when I sat in the audience and listened to General Curtis LeMay talk about this technology very little of it got into the popular news press of those years. So today for example, most people have no idea what the U.S. or Russia or China or Great Britain or France or Germany or India or other developed nations are actually capable of.
Maybe this is a good thing. My point of view is that the intelligentsia of the Earth needs to be aware that it is very likely that the U.S., Russia, China and other developed nations likely have access to time travel technology. And if they actually have this technology it makes it likely that these countries (or more) have already colonized other times and potentially other worlds without telling the public about it.
Why would nations do this? Because the amount of deaths in trying to do these things would be horrific like in wartime. So, it is easier for governments to say nothing. Also, people of earth would tend to get jealous of people living in the deep past or deep future of earth or other planets. They would want to know about this. However, likely it wouldn't be practical yet (or ever) to send thousands to millions of people to other planets. So, it would be much easier just not to tell them what a government (any government is actually doing).
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Curtis LeMay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Curtis Emerson LeMay (November 15, 1906 – October 1, 1990) was a general in the United States Air Force and the vice presidential running mate of American ...
I thought it interesting that LeMay was caricatured in "Dr. Strangelove": The movie as one of the charactors who was a General.
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