Dismissing the former as nothing more that 100-year-old technology is pretty naive.
I do respect your expertise, I don't even know what the hell is under my 08 Landrover's hood, I can't recognize anything.
Having said that, 1917 Ford could run probably 40mph comfortably. With my Landrover I can go up to 120MPH probably and climb those hostile dirtroads with pretty good ease.
I got my first Mac in 1980. Now I have a Mac with 32inch display, where I can see the world instantly, the photoshop I have can transform any picture with an ease that no one could dream 25 yrs ago. look at any aspect of this technology, not even Arthur C Clarke could envision the leap of Computer technology, although he did very well in his imagination of our exploration of Solar system. We failed him, his imagination did not fail him.