Contrarian post :) Firstly, you don't really mention when the golden age of tech is for you. The answer can be quite different depending on the technological n

Contrarian post :) Firstly, you don't really mention when the golden age of tech is for you. The answer can be quite different depending on the technological niche you are thinking of[1]. I'd argue that it's not over yet, and we are probably only at the beginning. Although I agree that many lessons were learned then forgotten to the past, and we keep re-discovering those. Only this time open source and free software is a thing, hopefully this will help us build on a common and expanding base, instead of reinventing everything all the time. [1] especially as tech is so vague. The golden age of siege engines was probably the time of the Roman Empire. We keep building on previous technological bases though, so technology is moving forward, you'd also have to define "golden age".