Some Tech Progression in Info Era Doesn't Make Sense

Not really. All those resources might as well be non-existent if you can't get to them. Politics or outright exhaustion makes absolutely no difference to the final result. If you've got no resources, you've got no resources, and you're forced to search elsewhere.
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Columbus and his men didn't see his trip as a suicide mission either. He knew for a fact that the world was round, and he expected to hit India then sail back to become rich and famous. He did not sail off randomly into the ocean for the lulz just to see what would happen.
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NASA says they want to do a manned mission to Mars and they're designing portable buildings that they can take to the planet at the moment. They're not skipping straight to Alpha Centari either.
 
Maybe 'the hyperspace jump' can be added as a future tech? Or 'the positronic brain'?
 
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