There's has been a significant slowdown in scientific, technological, and economic progress in recent decades, since about 1970, or the last ~50 years. The digital revolution has been absolutely amazing. It’s up there with electricity, the internal combustion engine.
But the 1900s were a world of horse-drawn carts and candle-lit houses. In the following 50 years you would would live through electricity, the motor car, television and radio, the telephone, the refrigerator, the vacuum-cleaner, penicillin and the aeroplane, just to name a few. Most countries & international institutions were born by 1970.
I think this explains a lot culturally. In something like media, the peak of something like game development was reached back in 2012. Since then, every increase in texture and graphics has provided less and less of tangible benefits, and they take longer/more costly to make.
The new music market is actually shrinking. All the growth in the market is coming from old songs, and there are constant rehashes of old Movies/remakes.
Humans live broadly as we did 50 years ago.
But the 1900s were a world of horse-drawn carts and candle-lit houses. In the following 50 years you would would live through electricity, the motor car, television and radio, the telephone, the refrigerator, the vacuum-cleaner, penicillin and the aeroplane, just to name a few. Most countries & international institutions were born by 1970.
I think this explains a lot culturally. In something like media, the peak of something like game development was reached back in 2012. Since then, every increase in texture and graphics has provided less and less of tangible benefits, and they take longer/more costly to make.
The new music market is actually shrinking. All the growth in the market is coming from old songs, and there are constant rehashes of old Movies/remakes.
Humans live broadly as we did 50 years ago.
