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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Are we in an age of technological decline?
 
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Old Kentucky Shark
May 25, 2012

If you think you're gonna get sympathy from the shark, well then, you won't.

Rent-A-Cop posted:

The omni-directional pallet and intermodal container have had greater impacts on the human race than literally anything else that has been invented since the atomic bomb.
There's 2 feet of snow on the ground and I am eating a (reasonably) fresh mandarin orange.

The part where no one thinks that is amazing is the part that's loving amazing.

The average Walmart Distribution Center represents a level of gross technological and logistical power greater than the Manhattan Project.

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Old Kentucky Shark
May 25, 2012

If you think you're gonna get sympathy from the shark, well then, you won't.

OwlFancier posted:

I mean just off the top of my head the internet and smartphones have pretty massively influenced how life works in my lifetime. My entire job and the company I work for would be impossible without them.


Also, as an addendum to that: remember when people used just not know things? Like, you'd stop and wonder for a moment about some trivial matter, and then just give up and never find out what the answer was? Remember when that was a thing people did?

That's not coming back.

I think you could probably make a decent case that the level of scientific discovery has slowed down significantly in the last 50 years, because that was an area where there really was a lot of low-hanging fruit that we had to knock out in the first couple centuries of work. There's only so many Maxwell Equations or DNA or Germ-Theory-Of-Disease-level discoveries to be made on earth, and we've probably hit most of them. But there's a fairly significant difference between that and technological innovation.

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