The observation that in some genres, characters can have fantastic technology far beyond our own, yet this technology only gets used to solve equally fantastic problems. A person who controls weather will never make it rain in drought-stricken areas, or stop the rain during terrible flooding, or stop a heatwave. A person who can control fire will never douse bush fires or burning buildings, or get a job at a power station. And a supergenius (such as Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four) can save the life of starving demi-god being like Galactus, but will never take a weekend to duplicate and market Doctor Doom's burn-victim cure device (or even five minutes to find out what causes piss shivers), or release his inventions that could solve a variety of real-world problems. All potential solut