Only in Europe, technology continued to advance elsewhere. See entertainment friendly Crash Course World History episode.

That post is raaatarded

The internet wasn't released for common use until about what, 20 years after it was invented?  

The DOD has shit you won't even know about for a while.

Wow... I was going to say that putting a space after the last character of your title sentence before the question mark was grammatically incorrect... then I saw your OP and my brain just went "WTF, dude?"

Commas on lines by themselves between lines? Periods on lines by themselves?

todays news...

Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant
A paralysed man has been able to walk again after a pioneering therapy that involved transplanting cells from his nasal cavity into his spinal cord

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-29645760

Considering the grammatical fuck ups and the general idea behind the thread - it is reasonable to assume the OP is high out of his mind.

The SR-71 was mentioned.  We've got better stuff than that or the F-117 now.  They just don't cue We the Taxpayers in on it and I'm OK with that.

BTW, back in the civilian world, we have:

stem cells (may be harvested from the person and not fetuses) for regeneration of the person.  Look at the dude who can walk again.
Genetics and GMO - scientists can play Gawd with food and critters.
DNA - trace your roots to Ghenghis Khan or Attila the Hun
Polymers - better living through modern chemistry.  Got BPA in your drink?

until I can clone sex slaves

Holy herp derp thread, Batman.

 

Technological progression is not the straight line you imagine.

Consider the knife. The typical knife today is essentially the same as one made a thousand years ago. Oh, the steel used is vastly superior and we can make them much more efficiently. But it’s the same implement. The reason is that knife technology matured to the point that little improvement was possible. Sure we come up with better materials which are stronger, harder, lighter, and keep a better edge. But they are both essentially equal in their ability to, say, butcher a cow.

And, when a technology stops being used, it tends to regress a bit. I doubt we could design and build a wooden hulled clipper ship that could match what they made in the 1850s. Now, given a few years of engineering, training, and computer simulations we could. But right now we couldn’t because it’s not something we need to do.

As far as firearms go, we mostly reached technological maturity 50+ years ago.  Powder has improved some, but not a lot. Plastic has been a reasonably significant material improvement. There have been some major improvements in bullet design. The real bit improvement has been in improved targeting. Optics, holographic sights, and laser sights are major, improvements over older firearms. Given equal numbers and training 100 men with AK-47s is an equal match with 100 men armed with M-16s. But put some modern optical sights on the M-16s and the guys with the AKs are severely outgunned.

Jet technology matured back in the 60s. Sure the engines gradually get more efficient, lighter, and more reliable. But these are incremental improvements.

Rocket technology also matured and we stopped developing rockets. So, of course, the technology is regressing some. Given a few years we can rediscover what we’ve lost, if we want.

Computer technology is approaching maturity, at least from my observations. Computers will continue to get better and smaller, but the rate of progress will slow drastically over the next few decades.

Medical technology is advancing rapidly. There are also reports that fusion power could be a reality within a decade or so. Overall I would say technology is advancing at a reasonably fast pace.

Your perception of peaked technology has a lot to do with economics and not just science.  The reason most of these things are still around in its same rough form is because they get the job done within the price range of the consumer.  As was mentioned before, 60-years is just a blip in technology advancement.  Again, some things peak due to physics.  The wheel has been around for a couple of years now and I don't think science will find a physical shape that is more efficient at the job that it does.  Can it be refined? Absolutely. But a wheel will always look like a wheel.

My first computer took up 1/4th of the basement at the Chevrolet Engineering Center. Now my watch is smarter and faster.



 

That claim has been ongoing for fifty years.

 

the answer is:
the age of labor-saving convenience to provide more leisure time... is over.
the age of ringing every ounce of efficiency out of your labor to the benefit of others... has just begun.

When Justin Bieber posted his first Youtube video.

Maybe a few decades after someone invents strong AI we can have this conversation but until then we aren't anywhere near the peak.

The Dark Ages is largely a myth rooted in the 18th and 19th centuries. Universities, monasteries and royal courts throughout Europe kept expanding the knowledge base.

So let me get this straight. Op is saying tech peaked in the 60s, by blaring his message across the world via the internet, most likely from a computer that sits in his lap or he holds in is hand, likely via wireless.

Is that whats going on here?

Right there with you on this one!

The 747 of yesterday is not the 747 of today.  OP is shallow.

Lol.  You have no idea.

Technology hasn't peaked yet, unless man's ability to manipulate it has peaked.  

ETA: That smartphone in your hand that you complain about allows you to have access to vast amounts of data and information that most scientists didn't have access to in the 80s, communication with damn near anyone, damn near anywhere in the world, instant access to news and breaking events, the ability to procure damn near anything, and has the power of a 1980s (or later) supercomputer, all at your fingertips.

And I guess you forget that we put a remote controlled vehicle on Mars that was able to transmit real-time data to us remotely.  We've mapped more of the universe, as well as discovered more about the universe, in the last 30 years than the previous 300 combined.  This was possible due to computer data and modeling, satellites, and space probes.  We won't even get in to the breakthroughs at CERN.

Oh, and think about the medical advances and the number of years added to the average life expectancy in the last 30 years.

And we've got a long way to go.  We're light years ahead of where we were just 30-40 years ago.

Do you realize socialists have been using that argument for over 100 years?

 

July 21, 1969

We were on the top until August 15th of the same year, thus began the slide until the present.

Wait until tech becomes self-aware, starts to KILL ALL HUMANS!!!

Just saw a 3D printed calcaneus that was implanted to save a cancer patient from amputation of his leg. link

I'm pretty sure this thread can be saved if enough people post cool links...

This might be one of the dumbest thread titles I've ever seen in GD.

Only being 30 years old, the amount of technological advances I've witnessed in my short lifespan are mindblowing.

Just about every aspect of my life has undergone noticeable technological advances in the past 15 years.

The way we communicate, manage and exchange data, weapons tech, aviation tech, automobiles, petroleum exploration, bioengineering, the medical field, you name it.

To say that technology peaked in the 20th century is extremely shallow.

Oh and the 747 that rolled off the assembly line on the 1970s is a totally different aircraft than the ones that are being built today.....

Looking historically, technology seems to peak, or at least plateau, right before government becomes too involved in it.

Technology peaked, today.  It will peak again, tomorrow.

Shit...





Where you at OP?





Defend your notion that technology peaked in the 60's when we have TELEPORTATION.

Anyone who bitches about peak technology WHILE SITTING AT HOME BITCHING ABOUT IT ON A PERSONAL COMPUTER VIA THE INTERNET makes me lol.

Your ability to write snarky replies with multisyllabic  words is utterly disproportionate to your myopic perspective on engineering endeavors.

So far...



Microchip technology in the 80's.

He had to get down to the early bird at Ruby Tuesday's.

He'll be back after supper and before bed time (7pm)

I hope he wound the spring in his watch to make it back on time.



 

Just watch these AT&T ads from 93-94, 20 years ago. Everything in those videos we have today or is better than the depictions.

That's awesome

Also LED light tech and Lithium battery technology alone has made ground breaking tech advances in the last 16 years. Try running your smart phone on nicad batteries

 

Those were surprisingly accurate

This high def image was taken on the surface of Mars. FUCKING MARS.



We're remote controlling a vehicle and doing science experiments on FUCKING MARS right now.

"Have you ever tucked your baby in from a phone booth?"

What's a phone booth?

In the particular field of small arms, man portable individual shoulder fired weapons,  box magazine fed, gas-operated semiautomatic, chrome vanadium rifled barrels firing brass cased boxer primed, copper jacket spitzer projectiles have been in  use since WW2.

 

Madcap:

Sweet and sour jesus OP

FUCKING MINGYA