And nobody asinine enough to ask "where's my jetpack" because we'd need Von Neumann self replicating machines, a supply chain and significantly more robust coding to get there.

He might have done better to push it another 50 years. Problem being the other half of the MAD deal.

Not that the future isn't bleak, but I take heart we didn't all die in a massive thermonuclear war this timeline in the multiverse.

A speedy thermonuclear demise would have been better than this mess. Emphasis on speedy.