Where are we on the road to quantum gravity?

Damned if I know! But I got to ask some questions to Lee Smolin which he kindly replied to, and you can read his answers over at Starts with a Bang. If you�re a string theorist you don�t have to read it of course because we already know you�ll hate it.
But I would be acting out of character if not having an answer to the question posed in the title did prevent me from going on and distributing