It may, although I'm not ready to discount the possibility yet. Another thing that has been seen throughout history is people claiming progress is at an end.

It may, although I'm not ready to discount the possibility yet. Another thing that has been seen throughout history is people claiming progress is at an end. I can't remember the source, but there's a famous quote from the early 1900s that everything important in physics had already been discovered. People also theorized progress would slow after peak coal was reached. There are many more examples. I would suggest that whatever time one is living in, it feels like all the major advancement is behind us, and things will slow from here. It may indeed be true now, or it could just be that we're feeling the tail end of a couple S-curves (Moore's law especially) and can't fully appreciate what the next paradigm will be.