The idea that today’s innovations are incremental and the innovations of the past were leaps is not quite right. History of technology is a hobby of mine and I

The idea that today’s innovations are incremental and the innovations of the past were leaps is not quite right. History of technology is a hobby of mine and I have been struck by how incremental all the big innovations of the past really were, once you take the trouble to look into what was going on at the time. Also, it takes decades to assess how important an innovation. And in the early stages all new things are much less impressive than the things they mature into. So recent history seems always less impressive, and also more incremental because we have all the context of how new things arose.