Remember the story (game) will only run over a 10-year periode, and it'll most likely not hit anything further than "badly-accurate" muskets if we choose to go that route. Though players of course dictate what direction to go, but don't expect anything modern.
Though they could possibly make a new game set in that timeperiode, but I would not hold my breath. We might see a steam-punk CoE in the far far future, but we're talking many years from now :)
This is at least of what I remember, I might be wrong so don't take anything at point blank value :)