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Not really, the LHC was designed in the 80s. Genome project launched in 1990. It's true that current generations work on incremental problems. The blockchain a

• patrickk 10y ago
  Don't forget we are close to an electric vehicle breakthrough to the mass market, and it looks like solar PV is on a cost curve that will potentially mean it will dominate electricity generation in the decades ahead (took it's time getting there, but better late than never.)
  • return0 10y ago
    Both of which are results of slow incremental progress after decades (and china), which brought the prices of materials (PV panels and batteries) to affordable levels. Of course they are wonderful things, but i cant get very excited about either.
• qrendel 10y ago
  Social media is vastly overrated as a "recent invention," imo. Facebook is basically a copy of MySpace and livejournal which are copies of AOL (instant messaging, profiles, and all). Blogs and microblogs (e.g. twitter) are a nice addition that appeared in the early 2000s, but even they're just a slight reformatting of BBS and forums. Most of this predates the WWW, in some format or another. Things have definitely evolved a lot, but as far as "social media" (reminds me how much I hated that term when they first started using it, when the basic profile + messaging concept had been around over a decade) goes, it's more like comparing a Tesla to a Model T, rather than a whole new type of technology.