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You are right... WW2 and then the Cold War were major catalyst to a lot of modern innovations... There have been 4 leaps during the industrial revolution. At
by ardit33 6y ago
You are right... WW2 and then the Cold War were major catalyst to a lot of modern innovations...
There have been 4 leaps during the industrial revolution. At the beginning the the new tech is just a toy, then it becomes useful and starts taking over previous/old tech, then it reaches a maturity point where improvements are very small/incremental:
1) Steam - 1800-1880s
2) Electricity and the Combustion Engine 1890 - 1940
3) Jet, rockets and Nuclear era 1941 - 1970
4) Digital Information 1970 - 2012-s
Now, AI/Green Tech/ or just stagnation? Who knows...
- mulmen 6y agoI think we may look back at this period in history as a time of innovation in social information and interaction. Surely the telegraph and telephone had some impact but the scale with which people are able to communicate has changed radically in the last 20 years. It's impossible for us to know now but I think we will look back at Facebook or Twitter and wonder "how did that work?" in much the same way we look at a party line today.