The government had workable plans for "real" spacecraft back in the 1960's so they should be pretty far advanced by now. In the time travel area, the government is supposed to maintain a military basethirty years in the future to make sure that they get a "heads up" on any bad news. Communication with the base is sent by "packets". These packets can contain information or material things. Oneincident which tends to support the argument that things of this nature go on concerns a person who picked up a signal from a TV station complete with its call sign ID. He contacted the station to get aconfirmation or a DX report, as it is called, only to be told that the station had gone off the air years earlier. The TV signal had somehow gotten included in the stream of "time packets" which allowed it tobe briefly received in the future.
THE BRAVE NEW WORLD MODEL
The classic novel "Brave New World" describes a future society where babies are grown in test tubes and most are deliberately damaged to make them artificially stupid. The "alpha" class is allowed todevelop normally with no damage and they are the leaders of the society. Below them, the "beta", "gamma" and so on classes have increasing degrees of damage and form the slave classes of the "bravenew world". Of course, we do not grow children artificially and damage some as in the novel. However, we do live in a society which has actually managed to achieve the same effect through differentmeans.
In our real "new world order", the "alpha" class, as in the novel, are unmodified. They are selected genetically and consist of members of certain specific families which, collectively, rule the world. Thesefamilies generally intermarry among themselves to keep the future members of the "alpha class" in the "family". A good example would be George Bush and John Kerry who ran against each other forpresident. They are cousins.
The remainder of the people are programmed and controlled through an elaborate system of information management and they pool into groups which pretty closely resemble the "beta", "gamma", etc.classes described in Huxley's novel. Also, people who are not born into a ruling class family and are "too smart" are sent "to the zoo" for brain damage to make them appropriately stupid.
A key management tool for this "brave new world order" is the concept of "need to know". So, if you are a janitor, you need to know where the closet is where the mops and brooms are kept. You don'tneed to know what is behind any other door. You don't need to know what your employer does - what product or service the company is associated with. You only need to know how to find the cleaningsupplies so you can tidy up the place. If you do the check out in a store, the only thing you need to know is the difference between "boop" and "beep". "Beep" means the scanner registered the item and"boop" means you need to scan it again. Computers do everything else so you don't need to know about any of that.
A simply incredible "need to know" example is illustrated by the staff who prepare the secret "president's daily brief". They produce this newsletter every day but are "specially trained" not to pay attentionto what the newsletter says because they do not "need to know" what is says (since it's a secret). They only "need to know" how to physically print it up.
If you are stupid enough to accept and live out your life by these crazy rules then maybe you deserve to be a slave. How much crap are you willing to put up with before you wake up. Suppose thegovernment said it was your duty to help the economy by taking a suicide pill at 65 so social security would not have to pay you. Would you just do it. Are you that stupid. Did you ever question why agroup of families run the planet and you need to obey them because they like it that way? Grow up and take your life and your world back.
BUT WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
No, we are not. You may be "in this" but they (your leaders) are not. In past times, in small groups or tribes, the decisions made by a leader affected the group and they equally affected the leader.However, today, leaders have created their own world. Although they live on the same planet, that is as far as it goes. They don't want to see you. They don't want to hear you. They don't want to smellyou. They don't live where you live. They don't eat the food you eat. They don't drink the water you drink. And, they don't even breath the same air you breathe.
Whether it is in the absolute luxury of one of the secret underground cities or in surface installations inaccessible to you, the lifestyle your leaders enjoy and your lifestyle are light years apart. Let's beginwith food. Do you really think leaders would eat genetically altered Frankenstein food? You know they are not going to drink tap water loaded with who knows what waste chemicals and traces of drugs.And, what about the polluted air. No chance. Places where leaders stay use "manufactured air". This means that tanks of the pure liquefied gasses that constitute "perfect theoretical air" (which does noteven exist any more in nature on our polluted planet) are carefully mixed in the correct proportions to fill the living spaces and working spaces of the leaders.
You should also realize that you are irrelevant to the leaders. Nothing that happens on the surface of this planet can possibly affect them. You can have wars, demonstrate, riot, make bombs and anythingelse you want. The leaders could not care less. Your existence is meaningless to them. You can't find them. You can't "vote them out of office" since you never voted them in or even knew there was asecret government. You can't wait for them to die since they live forever. And, it would not be a big deal for them to "manufacture" a new surface population of slaves from frozen embryos if everyone onthe surface was somehow killed off.