Agile Thoughts

Today is the future. [echo, jetsons sounds or future sounding music] The world has been marching forward but still there are no flying cars.  [whawha wha..] Well, there are flying cars but none mass produced. Why not? Are We developers and we managers part of the reason why we still don't have such nice things?  Is the low quality track record of IT to blame?  Must we be used getting patches, and upon installation, hoping this new version doesn't make things worse?