Just go to the technology subreddit and you would be lucky to find one article about actual machines and hardware out of the top 20 or 30 posts there on any given day.
The only cool hardware side things that are happening are SpaceX starship and the humanoid robots that have begun to be added to factories.
Software side is just not as exciting because you can make things faster or more colorful with it, but you aren't really creating any new capabilities.
Wow my game runs smoother without the battery heating up vs wow we now have ships that can take us back to the moon.
Even AI is beginning to hit this snag as developing more and more powerful AI requires higher and higher hardware and energy requirements to be fulfilled to store and process all that data. This has limited AI development to the top companies in the world who already have access to billions of dollars to fund the AI projects, thus keeping everybody else out.
The last few innovative technologies I know of were:
1. Self driving cars
2. Drones
3. robot dogs
4. Roombas
5. Humanoid factory robots
6. Spaceships.
7. VR
8. Air fryers
That's it. All technologies that take decades to mature and become commonly available product.
On the software side on the other hand we are doubling or tripling something every year or two, but by the end of the day it is just a further iteration of what was already there. Nothing truly novel is coming out of it.
The world has slowed down in terms of offering new things.
We have less physical things than ever before meanwhile software keeps going up. It feels pointless.
No new generation of trains. No new jets. No new cities. No new world record breaking infrastructure. Just more software. software. software.
We have enough software. We have enough services. Give actual product now.
Compared to software upgrades, hardware is moving at a snail's pace. It is what is holding the world back, the fact that all the money has gone into making digital pixels work more efficiently over making an actually innovative new product.
It took 30-40 years for the US military to replace its rifle. That's how slow the hardware side is currently, and it feels like it's only getting slower over time.
Everybody went all in on big data, and now nothing is left for the new product side of things.
We have had the same tallest sky scraper in the world for 14 years now. Nobody has built anything taller in 14 years. That's embarrassingly slow.
On the other hand you currently have two models of the iphone releasing every year. It's ridiculous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_megaprojects#Water-related
Look at this crap. Every project takes like a decade on average. To notice any major difference in your city you would have to be there for a decade at least. Meanwhile you get 20 different iphones in that same time span. It's ridiculous how little advancement we have made in speeding up physical projects.
Physically the world is moving too slow. In terms of human intelligence growth, the world is moving too slow. Only software is moving at the speed of light now.
The world isn't even going to feel different until 2035 now. Global geopolitical events are moving faster than hardware evolution right now. That's how slow the shitshow is.
GTA VI took 12 years to release after GTA V. The numbers don't make any sense anymore. We are stuck at the top and the only fruit lying around anymore is at the highest branches.
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I've pizza-style argued with dramatards that just because they were raised in the tiny sliver of history with rapid technological advancement doesn't mean we will just continue that way forever. It has slowed down and been slowed down for a while. They thought they'd be immortal and inhabiting other planets, and probably the most outrages, thought a synthetic waifu could be made to actually like them.
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It's not even about slowing down, there are physical barriers. Like, what's the point of supersonic passenger jets? They're not economically viable (that's why the Concorde is not flying anymore) and neither are Maglev trains in most cases. Japan is now building a Maglev Tokyo to Osaka line which will be finished in 2037 but it's pretty much a prestige project. Building infrastructure with current materials, regulations and salaries is pretty darn expensive and not comparable to 19th century railways.
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synthetic waifu is still possible as long as biofoids dont ban them.
the issue is an abormality like Elon Musk is carrying the future right now. After he goes the tech sector is probably going to slow down by half. poof. slow growth era.
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The main problem isn't tech, it's people. The last century was unique in that tech was still easy enough and morals loose enough that you could do incredible things. Now we have entire systems weighing down growth and a need to collaborate to further study.
It took unironic creationists 30 years to go from discovering the atom to nuclear weapons. You really think a decade of billion dollar investment and a reckless disregard for lives wouldn't perfect CRISPR and gene-editing?
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