I am 55. When I was growing up, around 18-19, a LOT of different things started being invented, and continued up to about 3 years ago. New, for example; computers replacing typewriters. Color tv replacing black and white tv. Now, all of a suddent, new things have REALLY slowed down. Everything I see is just "upgrades" for existing things we buy and use. Example; tv's with bigger screens.
What happne? We ran out of thing NEW to invent and sell?
2007-10-22 08:14:28 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Good question. I'm 40 and notice the same thing. I think we humans have reached a plateau of sorts. There is nothing new to invent because there really is nothing major to invent, but rather only improve on.
Right now I think the major future inventions will revolve around energy conservation (Hydrogen cells) and making a newer, better propulsion system for spacecraft. But then again, those are really just improving on what we already have.
2007-10-22 08:22:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
It was inevitable that it slow down. We couldnt keep up the pace of inventing,manufacturing and producing things forever. I think that things will come along that amaze us and the regular thing of pricing it so only a few can afford it and then mass production will lower the price. Consider where we were during the 50's and 60's. We've made incredible progress in product manufacturing. We'll continue, but it just wont be at the same rate.
2007-10-22 10:52:01 · answer #2 · answered by phlada64 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the inventors & manufacturers simply got too far ahead for their own marketing skills to keep the bottom line on an even keel! We're just gonna get upgrades until the cable lines get laid, in order for people to be able to use the new inventions that are simply waiting for a way to be hooked-up & utilized by the public. People should pass the upgrades & wait for the new stuff. Especially on television sets! Soon most won't get reception without having a cable hook-up or converter box! If your area has no cable & you can't afford a satellite, then what's the use of buying a new one if all you can use it for is to watch a DVD! I'm 54 & I just don't get what's happening with all of these electronic gadgets & overpriced hook-up & monthly service charges! What was designed to make our lives easier has only been used as a marketing ploy to empty our pockets of any extra money we might want to save for that next new toy! It's just gotten way too out of hand for most of us who must live on a fixed income!
2007-10-22 09:39:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are either kidding or not keeping up with current events.
A whole range of biological drugs can effectively treat a whole range of conditions that had few remedies just 10 years ago.
Buying film for your camera....probably not, since we now use digital cameras. Not that recent an invention, but really perfected for consumers in the last 5 or so years
Storing music on cassette tapes? Nope, some guys in Germany invented the MP3 format....not all that long ago.
The list goes on and on. I think a few of these things may have passed you by.
2007-10-22 08:32:19 · answer #4 · answered by Good Answers 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-07 09:58:00 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It looks, to my rheumy old eyes, as if the folks in charge of such things are only looking to "improve" what already exists.
They're remaking movies that were just great in the first place, but they need to showcase new talent and have no decent scripts, I guess.
Around where I live, they're tearing out postwar subdivisions and rebuilding into "grander" (read more expensive) neighborhoods.
I think the saddest part of all is that writers are the only ones left with any imagination. The ones with the skills to DO things have no imagination to conceive new things.
2007-10-22 09:34:11 · answer #6 · answered by felines 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where have you been? Technology is progressing faster than I can keep up with it. If you buy a computer, it will be obsolete in a month. Cell phones are only meant to last a year.
The only thing I see being recycled are movies. Apparently there are no new ideas out there. Now they're using comic books.
2007-10-22 09:26:45 · answer #7 · answered by shermynewstart 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OMG! are you kidding?
There's been huge strides in medicine with the aids virus, and cancer, archeological finds that put our previous notions of the age of our planet in question, space exploration (evidence that the heavens are filled with universes like our own), digital photography, and the way we listen to and store music (MP3's).
Movie DVD's have completely overrun the market and made vcr's, vcr recorders and players darn near obsolete.
The thin, widescreen, high def tv's made a relic out of a huge monster tv we had bought in only 3 year's time.
And the latest innovations in cell phones with mini-computers on them and photography!!! not to mention blackberries.
2007-10-22 10:10:38 · answer #8 · answered by autumlovr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The new things now are in medicine, research, robotics underwater exploration and space exploration. We have enough gadgets. We need inventions to solve energy problems, global warming, and world hunger. Let's invent something to end terror and war. That would really be something. How about a pill to cure intolerance?
2007-10-22 08:34:33 · answer #9 · answered by curious connie 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Lemme see, similar to your example of black and white tv to color, how about analog to digital?
How about somebody inventing a Star Trek replicator?....then I can stop cooking and just tell the 'puter in the wall what I want!
2007-10-22 08:25:19 · answer #10 · answered by sage seeker 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋