Poll of the Day > Will we ever see another tech boom like we saw in the 90s and 2000s?

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Probably. Although there is no way we will have another 20th century in terms of technological progression. Just way too many technologies to list that were invented then: Mass electricity, automobiles, aviation, refrigeration, radios, computers, ect, I can go on and on. I can't see so many huge technologies flying under the radar (another 20th century invention) now a days, especially with the profit motive everyone has. It will probably be incremental progress going forward, not massive leaps.

DragonClaw01 posted...

Probably. Although there is no way we will have another 20th century in terms of technological progression. Just way too many technologies to list that were invented then: Mass electricity, automobiles, aviation, refrigeration, radios, computers, ect, I can go on and on. I can't see so many huge technologies flying under the radar (another 20th century invention) now a days, especially with the profit motive everyone has. It will probably be incremental progress going forward, not massive leaps.

they probably said the same thing during the industrial revolution

But the industrial revolution was not as revolutionary as the 20th century. All it did was speed up tasks. The 20th century straight up invented things that did not exist in anyway shape or form in earlier centuries. You can maybe explain what a cotton gin or a power loom does to a Medieval man and they would understand, but try explaining what a website is. They would probably burn you at the stake for being a warlock or something.

DragonClaw01 posted...

But the industrial revolution was not as revolutionary as the 20th century. All it did was speed up tasks. The 20th century straight up invented things that did not exist in anyway shape or form in earlier centuries. You can maybe explain what a cotton gin or a power loom does to a Medieval man and they would understand, but try explaining what a website is. They would probably burn you at the stake for being a warlock or something.

again, you are using the perspective of someone during your time. people in a couple of hundred of years might say the same things about us

Perhaps, but it has been over 30 years and the biggest change to my life tech wise is that instead of using a computer to browse the internet I use my phone. A person that started in 1900 would have quite a larger list of tech changes.

DragonClaw01 posted...

Perhaps, but it has been over 30 years and the biggest change to my life tech wise is that instead of using a computer to browse the internet I use my phone. A person that started in 1900 would have quite a larger list of tech changes.

and the list could be even bigger between then and now, compared to what we have in 2150, let's say

Or less. Given the 80-20 rule and diminishing returns, I would say less it more likely.

If you're interested in IoT there's a lot of stuff going on.

Like was already said: with the tech and knowledge we have now, we'd probably see just incremental progress in the future.

To see another massive leap, we'd almost have to learn to harness a new aspect of the universe (like which we saw in the 19th century, with electricity), which would, in time, bring about a slew of new inventions and capabilities - another "tech boom" if you will.

Hoverboards baby

Will we ever see another tech boom like we saw in the 90s and 2000s?

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KJ StErOiDs posted...

Like was already said: with the tech and knowledge we have now, we'd probably see just incremental progress in the future.

To see another massive leap, we'd almost have to learn to harness a new aspect of the universe (like which we saw in the 19th century, with electricity), which would, in time, bring about a slew of new inventions and capabilities - another "tech boom" if you will.

dark matter

Once we fully embrace fart magic the next industrial revolution will be at hand

Fam_Fam posted...

again, you are using the perspective of someone during your time. people in a couple of hundred of years might say the same things about us

Any sufficiently advanced technology will simply appear as magic, so yea in a hundred years people could have a technology we don't have and say silly things about us.