While we may still not have flying cars, robot butlers or food replicators actually in our possession, you can now order something else you may have long dreamt of. It's called the Photon Matrix, and it uses lasers to track and kill airborne mosquitoes.
A previous version of this claimed that it could distinguish between male and female mosquitos (the ones that bite). It used the different wingbeat frequencies, if memory serves.
It feels that a point-defence system is less harmful than gassing the whole area, which is what e.g. hotels do now.
Now that would have been reassuring to read. It wasn’t in the article though. I agree with you that gassing or blanket poisoning is a lot worse in principle