POS and POW have both advantages and disadvantages. But, it is safe to say that POS has more advantages compared to POW.
actually it is the other way around meaning PoS has a lot more disadvantages compared to PoW and it is more centralized and has a lot more surface of attacks.
To date, I haven't heard much of POS coin being victim of 51% attacks or the likes.
you haven't heard a 51% attack on PoS coins because that attack is specific to PoW. but there are lots of other attacks against PoS that you can find if you look for them and they don't apply to PoW.
Is POS the future of cryptocurrencies?
No!
Any advice on which technology to invest in will be welcome.
i don't give advice like this ever but i can say a coin doesn't become a good investment based on its mining algorithm.
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you haven't heard a 51% attack on PoS coins because that attack is specific to PoW. but there are lots of other attacks against PoS that you can find if you look for them and they don't apply to PoW.
But none have materialized as far as we know. So far, it has only been on paper.
Regardless, see with POS, one can have passive income while helping the network. But, with POS, hosting a full BTC node of almost 200GB of data provides no incentives. Ever POW coin will somehow end with over several TB of data, making it challenging for anyone to hold for free in the long run. Maybe the BTC devs should think of a way to incentive full nodes by adding some kind of POS. Dont you think so?