Why has technology outside of the world of information largely stalled?
From aerospace to nuclear to space exploration we haven't moved that much from the 1960s. When people say that we live in a fast technology age they're generally talking about social media crap. Technological progress used to mean going to another part of the universe, now it means getting to use 250 instead of 140 characters on Twitter or having new filters for pictures on Instagram.
diminishing returns on innovation + massive costs of improving already acceptable technologies.
Lincoln Hall
Because the breakthrough innovations have mostly already been solved, and we sit at new roadblocks. We just sped everything up, which is great, but doesn't fundamentally change the theory behind any of it, so we don't progress anywhere.
Angel Anderson
We're not competing with the soviets anymore. The population is not driven for or against an idea. It's a race to the bottom between corporations.
Hunter Myers
I wonder how the world has changed since then.
Charles Young
>implying the Soviets could ever compete even back then
Austin Williams
>believing in modern anti-soviet propaganda
Luke Hughes
Care to explain why Russians can't come up with anything today despite stealing US tech?
Benjamin Edwards
They consistently designed and produced better tanks, helicopters, short&mid&long range missiles and ICBMs, and small arms. Okay the last may be questionable but against flesh, 5.45 ball easily does more damage and back then nobody wore armor. They also put the first human in space and rover on venus without exploding dozens of millions of worth of equipment and workforce. They had considerably better integrated spies and more reliable anti-spies, and easily subverted the West at will while suffering no loss themselves. The final nail was consumerism, which poor people couldn't escape, as well as quality of life. But technologically, their engineers were much more motivated (as are now - we study and work instead of blogging about genders).
Jace Powell
Just because you don't follow news closely doesn't mean they aren't happening. There have been important advances in all those fields in the past 5 years alone.
Andrew Jenkins
Because all they did was steal instead of trying to innovate
Justin Baker
The culture that put men on the moon was literally Hitler (Operation Paperclip).
We do, we have complete immunity from copyright infringement which allows us to incubate cyber assets, then hire them or send them as spies to make a good living in the West. We have alternatives to every FAANG technology, only left is to mass produce our Elbrus or license Via.
Ayden Moore
Until very recently the US was wholy dependent on the Russian Basedez program to get into space.
Tyler Rivera
We are living on a dystopia. Not sure anything short of another world war or world crisis could change that. Progress is made but at a much slower rate, most people are lazier, there is no incentive.
Noah Walker
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Jordan Williams
What are you talking about? There have been lots of advances in other areas such as power electronics, telecommunications, logistics, power storage, materials, construction techniques, etc.
Jacob Wilson
Jeez user we can just use mass market crashes instead. No need for actual war.
Charles Peterson
They havent stalled but now they are integrating information technology, and what passes for AI into machines. Space exploration is almost an impossibility for humans as our bodies will not endure well untill we can build the machines and the infrastructure that will get us even to Mars. So people are working out how to put fuels supplies into space without drifting away. They are looking to autonomous cars, they are building faster communications networks, they are looking into using quantum entanglement to send messages extremely quickly over vast, distances, so that we could get instant communications with, say, a mars lander. The world of technology hasnt stalled, it is just that the problems being solved are far more complex so will take longer to surface
Jackson Richardson
>using quantum entanglement to send messages extremely quickly over vast, distances, so that we could get instant communications with, say, a mars lander >instant communications
It doesn't matter either way because in 2100 Russia and the Russian people will still exist while America won't. Maybe Russia will be capitalist, maybe it will be communist but either way it will be filled with high IQ Northern Eurasians who will be able engineer new technologies. America will be filled with sub 90 IQ third world shitskins and basically like a big Brazilian favela