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> has not slowed down since We are on a slow down. The first nuclear power plant was back in 1954. That's roughly 70 years ago. Except for tech/computers, not

• qingcharles 2y ago
  I don't agree. I think things flatten off a bit in some areas -- power production, transportation. But I also think we might be on the cusp of things going hockey stick vertical before the end of the decade.
• ben_w 2y ago
  Even since 1954, the changes have been enormous. Medicine is radically better: some diseases eliminated entirely (smallpox), others reduced to manageable conditions (HIV), even novel pandemics get multiple vaccines within a few years; the first successful transplant was 1954, a kidney between two identical twins, because they didn't have a good way to do immunosuppression until 1970. PV and batteries weren't impressive until suddenly each was a revolution. Long-distance travel became cheap, widely accessible. My uncle moved to Australia (from the UK) to get away from his mum, my first trip abroad (aged, I think, 8) was to visit him. Tech and computers enabled so many other things that I don't think it's reasonable to prefix them with an "except for". Even just going from 1954 to 2000 was approximately my Dad's career, and that included "we're sending you on a two day training course on this new thing called 'software'" (he worked for a UK defence contractor, writing simulation software for IFF radar systems).