is technology slowing down?

Answer 1

You have to be joking.
It is speeding up.

Answer 2

In terms of new discoveries per dollar, the rate of technological progress is bound to slow down. Like everything else, it suffers from diminishing returns. If you like, the low hanging fruit are picked first. We now have to reach higher up into the tree to make new advances.

While we are still making progress in many areas, it is easy to overlook areas where we have not made much progress. The Apollo missions were done with pretty primitive technology. 40 years later, we have much better computers, but we don't have any better way of getting to the Moon than firing a big chemical rocket.

Another example is supersonic flight. There are no longer any commercial supersonic airliners. Supersonic or even hypersonic passenger transport is now a dream of science fiction again. In that case, we have gone backwards.

To counteract diminishing returns, we need to spend more and more in absolute terms on research and development, which so far we have been able to do. That amount can't grow forever, at some point we will reach a limit.

Answer 3

Speeding up. Murphys law shows that technology, especially computational power is doubling almost every 2 years.

Think about it for a minute. Let's rewind to 1988 and take a look at say, computers and video games? We had the nes, the first mario bros, and computers that were running on like 16 mhz.

Now then, zoom to 2000. We were playing things like the nintendo 64...computers were up to like, 800 mhz, 20 gig harddrives.

2006? We have the nintendo wii, look at the difference in graphics. Computers? We have computers that are running on duel 2.4 ghz processors, 500 gig harddrives. That huge difference in only 6 years.

Answer 4

Its not speeding up as much as it could. We're a long way away from physical limits and there are huge areas of research yet to bare fruit - quantum computing and nanotechnology which could change the world when they get off the ground. I think the reason technology isnt going as fast as it could is because of the lack of spending on basic research.

Answer 5

consider that 90% of the scientists that ever lived are now living, and that ever year we have more and more information and data about the world and how to manufacture and find out things ... if anything technology is speeding up exponentially ... we all will be crazy when we get old because the world that we knew as children will be just a memory and things will be drastically changed so much.

Answer 6

With the becoming weight of human beings over the subsequent coming years, u . s . will give way under the huge cost of well-being care interior of 30 years. After that the international monetary climate will return the the stone a collectively as with sticks and stones changing revolvers and rifles. each concern would be bartered for rather of use of any money. technologies will pass returned 1000 years in below 50 years.

Answer 7

Most of the great breakthroughs have their roots in the 70's. It is slowing somewhat but could speed up again. Computers are still doubling their speed every 18 months.

Answer 8

No, it is not. The opportunities to do research these days are far greater than before and many private companies invest money into funding different programs that do research.

BUT!...for some reason people do believe that we should've been far more advance than we are right now.

Answer 9

yes the more people accept the textbook as the ultimate truth and refuse to have an original thought the more tech. will slow. nickoli tesla and alex bell have already invented everything we are building today.

Answer 10

no not really...i mean they've made huge break troughs in medicine
it's not slowing down only that we are not informed about everything...

Answer 11

yes