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Not necessarily. Technological progress seems to be slowing.

• jacquesm 10y ago
  > Technological progress seems to be slowing. Comedy gold. Really? How long ago since you thought 'mail' was something a guy carried for you? How long ago since you thought a phone should be wired to a wall? How long before that when you thought a computer was something that banks used?
  • ouid 10y ago
    How long since the last time a major technology was invented that changed how you live your day to day? When that happened, how long had it been since the previous one? I bet the first number is bigger than the second number.
    • raisedbyninjas 10y ago
      1. The smartphone (iphone 2007) 2. The internet (early 1990s)
      • jacquesm 10y ago
        The internet, 70's & 80's, the web, 90's. It's fairly well established that inventing things gets easier when there are other things that you can build on top of.
      • ouid 10y ago
        what about cellphones? Laptops? GPS? You can't just pick two things. Being thorough here is hard.
• benburleson 10y ago
  Really? I just see it getting faster and faster.