Yet beards flourish, cars remain earthbound and work yaps at our heels.The internet is no exception.
However loudly his more venturesome fellows are now baying for the (real) moon, the plain man's first concern is to establish, in plain language, what it will all mean to the earthbound nations, not in the conjectural future, but in the next few months and years.
But the very qualities which are most jarring about CGI in earthbound films are the ones which make this particular scenario so exciting.
And although more and more digital information is kept in "the cloud", the remote servers that make up the cloud are resolutely earthbound, with their location chosen mostly for its climate, its existing infrastructure and its tax regime.The digital and the physical world are interacting ever more closely.
Among the 30 or so earthbound plans are a new reality show where fans will pay to put their "idols" on television, a celebrity-chat smartphone application and a scheme to undercut the price of livestreaming video to phones.
And slower growth curbed the growth of tax revenues.In this section The earthbound bite back A rum do Peace, land and bread Paradise interrupted ReprintsMr Medina's answer was to order a rise in value-added tax from 16% to 18% while broadening its coverage.
Its growth prospects, after all, are still remarkable even if the rooster stays earthbound.
But if the earthbound parts of the novel have a hero she is Popi, the child of an illicit coupling between a white man and a black woman.
Military drones, after all, are no cleverer than doornail-dumb earthbound robots; many are dumber still.
Switzerland's big wholesale banks are very different from Italy's retail-oriented banks; and Germany's universal banks have to contend with a distinctly earthbound domestic economy while France's are beginning to cross-sell like mad to increasingly interested retail customers.
The new Sputnik was bleeping mockingly at the earthbound Americans who feared they were losing the race in space and elsewhere.Mr Cliburn was no loser.
