Interestingly, I think technological progress really has been faster over the last 50 years than the 50 before that (although it's decidedly close.) But the pro

Interestingly, I think technological progress really has been faster over the last 50 years than the 50 before that (although it's decidedly close.) But the progress of the first half of the 20th century so spurred our hopes for rapidly accelerating futurism that even the fast pace of computing, transportation, and communication tech development seems dull if it doesn't get us to space.