> The stream of lifechanging breakthrough inventions of the 20th century, from A (antibiotics) to Z (zippers), have ended I agree, but this only leads to more

> The stream of lifechanging breakthrough inventions of the 20th century, from A (antibiotics) to Z (zippers), have ended I agree, but this only leads to more questions: why? And is it permanent? I think we are in a temporary lull. Finance people, in the vain of JP Morgan, have gotten very good at controlling the social processes around both physical resources and human output. They keep most people tired and scared to change jobs, so they can be made to focus on production. The rest who are actively problem solving despite those pressures, the finance folks try to steer them towards a maze where big bets are made and equity changes hands often. We were bison, and now we're cattle. There's more meat, but less frolicking, and no semblance of any kind of ecosystem that produced so many bison-y moments. Is it forever? I don't think so. We're only fairly recently getting lots of brains trying to discover tools for doing things outside of finance. And still, it's a trickle. Look at all the beautiful brains on this message board, whose output is getting fed into the feedlots of VCs and Paul Graham.