Are we living in a miraculous Century of technological feats of achievements?

While celebrating Chile's 33 miners rescue this week, we saw another engineering feat of Switzerland completing the World's Longest Tunnel, (35-mile)under the Alpine Mountains.
WOW! Are we living in a miraculous century of technological advances and feats?
Just imagine-Aerospace Shuttles fly 33 honeymoon couples(each passenger to pay a 10-15 million dollars)to the moon to celebrate their honeymoon and colonize there with housing block building construction; Communication through watches equipped with ipod, and ipad advances. Seven Americans land on Mars; water and oxygen found there to support life and plants; no terrorists and snakes to combat; all aliens there to love and cherish co-operation and alliance in peace for advancement of lives and speak one common language; who knows we may have to send advanced elites to breed there for advanced civilization.

Friday, 15 Oct. 2010 was Swiss day of joy as they celebrated the breakthrough moment for the world's longest tunnel(10B project to open early 2017) — a project 60 years in the making.
A gigantic drilling machine chewed through the remaining 8,200 feet separating the two ends of the 35.4-mile Gotthard Base Tunnel in central Switzerland.
Some 2,500 workers have spent nearly 20 years smashing through rock to create the nearly 35-mile tunnel under the Alps(excluding aqueducts)to let passenger and cargo trains pass underneath the Alps at speeds up to 155 miles an hours on their journey from Germany to Italy/

Miners, VIPs and journalists inside the tunnel cheered as Switzerland reclaimed the tunnel record from Japan's Seikan Tunnel(33.5 miles)

High-speed transportation network connects all corners of Europe, allowing millions of tons of goods that are currently transported through the Alps on heavy trucks to be shifted onto the rails, particularly the economically important link between the Dutch Rotterdam and Italy's Genoa.

Swiss voters, who are paying over $1,300 each to fund the project, approved its construction in a series of referendums almost 20 years ago.

Switzerland has set the bar very high for future cross-Alpine rail projects. Two further tunnels — one connecting Lyon, France, to Turin, Italy, between Austria and Italy — are still under construction.