Space Tech

Very nearly. Low-earth-orbit satellite broadband delivers genuinely fast, low-latency connectivity almost everywhere, including at sea and in the air. Cost, terminal size and a handful of restricted countries are the remaining gaps.

For texting, increasingly yes. Unmodified handsets on supported networks can send messages and emergency alerts via satellite where there is no mast, which is a genuinely meaningful safety change. Satellite video calls from a normal phone are not what this is.

Yes, if you are extremely wealthy. Suborbital hops and private orbital missions genuinely fly paying customers. It is not tourism in any normal sense: seats are scarce, six to eight figures, and manifests are booked years out.

Not as a normal service. Electric air taxis have flown crewed test flights and secured early certification steps, with launch routes announced in a few cities. Commercial passenger operations at meaningful scale have not started.

No. Experiments have achieved scientific energy gain in the reaction itself, which is a genuine milestone, but no facility produces net electricity for a grid. Commercial pilot plants are announced for the 2030s and those timelines have slipped before.