{"id":17842,"date":"2022-05-30T13:54:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T13:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techmaina.com\/?p=17842"},"modified":"2022-05-30T13:54:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T13:54:06","slug":"why-there-are-no-more-big-technological-breakthroughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techmaina.com\/why-there-are-no-more-big-technological-breakthroughs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why There are no More Big Technological Breakthroughs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Probably, such judgments will seem strange to many people. Especially today, when we seem to be witnessing a “golden age” in the field of technical, medical, scientific, and social progress, there seems to be nothing left until the singularity point.<\/p>\n

However, according to many experts, our ideas about the irrepressibility of human progress are just a decoration, elegantly constructed by the media. Everything we are so proud of today is just a refinement of the legacy of half a century ago.<\/p>\n

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\"Why<\/p>\n

The discovery of X-rays and the double structure of DNA, penicillin (i.e. antibiotics), and insulin.<\/p>\n

The development of in vitro fertilization (IVF) techniques and the first steps towards AI. And then there are transistors, nuclear power, the beginning of space exploration, television, the first computers, and the Internet.<\/p>\n

And that’s just a fraction of what\u00a0was discovered<\/a>\u00a0in the last century, leading to the industrial and productive forces that have changed our everyday lives beyond recognition.<\/p>\n

And while these and other discoveries of the so-called “golden quarter” (the 1940s-60s) have now been perfected and finally incorporated into our lives, we have never produced anything fundamentally new in the field of science and technology.<\/p>\n

“Sure, the personal computer<\/a> and its cousin the smartphone have brought about big changes: many goods and services have become more and better.<\/p>\n

But compared to what my grandmother saw, the basic circumstances of life remain the same today,” writes the American economist Tyler Cowan with a touch of sad irony.<\/p>\n

What is this “technological stagnation” about? Why has scientific and technological progress not moved forward for almost half a century?<\/p>\n

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