If your anchoring point of innovation is 1875 to 1900 as it is in this article, you're going to be disappointed by the rate of innovation in just about every ot

If your anchoring point of innovation is 1875 to 1900 as it is in this article, you're going to be disappointed by the rate of innovation in just about every other historical period in the history of mankind. If you take the long view on this, we had the Industrial Revolution, and just as that started to taper off we got computers, and then the Internet gave that revolution a boost. It's been an incredible run of advancement, and there's no inherent reason why we must believe that it continues forever.