Why has humanity failed to innovate in the past decade?
jsz0: I think you're being a bit too hard on humanity..-Dozens of extrasolar planets discovered.
-Confirmation of water on Mars. 
-Completed the principal construction of ISS
-Cassini–Huygens
-AIDS drug therapy drastically increasing life spans
-US elects a black President
-Lowest number of homicides in the US since the 1960s