> One could argue that the past ~century of scientific and technological development has probably beat any other 100 year period You could make this argument

> One could argue that the past ~century of scientific and technological development has probably beat any other 100 year period You could make this argument about most centuries. But it's a meaningless argument if the metrics you're evaluating on are implicit and assumed to be well agreed upon by all others. My reply is the same to the other arguments you've made