>>27855define suppressed. there are plenty of technologies that, while not actually censored, aren't put into practice because of things like planned obsolescence and enshittification, and ultimately, because while they are technically satisfactory for whatever purpose they were made, they aren't conductive towards profit
there is also technology that hasn't been discovered yet because of the same reasons. this is, the same trends that decides to ignore currently existing technology, is also in charge of allocating resources for research activities. so there are unknown technologies that may have been researched in a different context
this isn't about bad actors or anything like that, this is capitalism working as intended. as the progressive potential of capitalism shrinks, as it's capacity to incentivize and produce technological improvements decays, the classes that benefit from it will become increasingly reactionary and opposed to progress. this is a fact, but fake conspiracy theories like "free energy, cancer cures, anti gravity tech" end up discrediting a valid observation about capitalism