Why Has Progress Stopped?

Compared to the boom of from 1940 to 1970, technological advancement seems to have comnpletely stagnated.

That time saw the invention of computers, space travel, nuclear power, modern medicine, international transport etc. Anything seemed possible, we saw a future of space travel, cure-all medicine, clean energy and robotics.

Now we just get mildly better iphones and any new medical treatments take decades for approval when they do come along. We haven't had a new antibiotic developed in decades and cancer survival rates have only improved 5% since 1950. We hear about advances massively overstated in the news, but we never see them in reality.

We surely have more engineers today than in the past, stress seems to be on start-ups and innovation, more people are educated in general. So why is everything slowing Sup Forums?

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Brown people

Affirmative action caused the labour force to be majoriliy lazy and unskilled. Everyone is too busy showing off how progressive they are to their banking benefactors and trying to scrape up that free money. No one really wants to invest in anything.

There's still a few out there like Elon Musk making some progress though. But they'll become rarer and rarer as white people mostly leave society behind disillusioned by it all Atlas Shrugged.

>Sent from my iPhone

Its in your picture. They're watching black people on tv.

Media turned the focus to the lowest common denoninator and shamed actual progress. We're now afraid of the ethics of progress and instead share barber memes and upload twerking videos. Stagnation is a consequence of degenerecy.

It hasn't at all
>make America gr8 again

We have not recovered any UFO's lately, still working off of thier old technology

Surely just through population growth alone there should be the same amount of innovators around as there was in the past, even if a higher proportion of the population isn't.

This guy

The next generation of the west will be even worse though

We pander so hard to the lowest common denominators that people will fail at life just for freebies

We need a war to speed up the need for more advanced tech, without an arms race our tech will upgrade much slower.
>still waiting on my personal jetpack promised int he 1950's

Although more seriously, the space age/jet age was mainly the practical application of new technologies, and a lot of it was low hanging fruit.
It sounds stupid to say that going to the moon was low hanging fruit when it required harnessing the industrial output of an entire civilization but in terms of manned space exploration it definitely was.
Now we are in an area with fewer low hanging fruits and more just general kind of fruits everywhere

there's progress alright, you just don't see it because it's happening in realtime

it hasn't particularly stopped, we're just in a research phase moving into another consumer phase probably sometime in the late 10's early 20's. lots of new tech is here but not mature enough, and it's all going to hit around the same time. the 20's is going to be a hell of a decade.

The Civil Rights Movement.

But it seems to have: we have incremental improvement on things invented decades ago: commercial plane travel is exactly the same speed it was years ago, just a bit safer - in fact we lost the concorde. Computing grows, but what do we really have to show for it? We got to space on 1960s computing, nowadays the peak goes to rendering pixar animals.

No new categories of technology seem too have been created either, its just new versions of what we've seen before.

It could be argued that genetic technology and medicine is new, but we have seen literally nothing come of that.

But affirmative action and population inflation instead of sustainable growth in the minority races has created a disproportionality in the work force that's not beneficial for progress.

I bet that's what your government's been saying to your people for years

When consumer VR hits we are going to see a huge spike in software and engineering possibly many times larger than the smartphone boom.
But still it won't lead to space colonies

Less commercial applications for military technology.

Liberals

so you want brand new shit? what problems do you want solving?? we're working on nanomachines for medicinal problems but we can already cross distances easily, communicate worldwide etc. its just niche stuff and illness to be worked on non incrementally really

When I was a kid I thought I would live long enough to see people live on the moon.
Right now it looks like I will die before seeing anything noteworthy.
All we have is some stupid gimmick VR goggles for hipster faggots and drones for hipster film makers who make shitty youtube videos.

Kill me. I don't want to live. Why can't I go to Mars yet? Just kill me already.

>Compared to the boom of from 1940 to 1970, technological advancement seems to have comnpletely stagnated.

it's probably just reality.

the great age of physics only lasted a few decades. similarly, solid-state (are you old enough to remember when that meant something) electronics exploded for a few decades as well.

cars and planes are pretty much perfected, except for the transition to electrical power.

medicine will continue to advance at a snail's pace.

what else is there? and as for that 40s to 70s time period, cell phones and the internet have changed the world far more than anything from that era. nukes have had a profound effect in that super powers don't wage direct war anymore, but as for your life and my life, they changed more in the last two decades than in the 40-70 period.

I'm not saying there's nothing left to discover, but we are at something of a plateau.

How many mars missions would the war on terror and the f-35 have paid for?

But we can leave aside things like personal space travel, jetpacks and ray guns because many visions of the future were based on unnecessary things that were either not possible or just undesirable.

But we still haven't seen medical advances, something that is possible and is highly desirable.

Is it just because there is more money in consumer tech?

We can now land robotic probes on fast moving asteroids, have 4 legged walking robots advanced enough to self right when tipped over and most people in the developed world carry in their pockets a computing device more powerful than supercomputers from back in the 70s and 80s that has wireless access to the largest open library of information ever in the history of man.

Technological advancement gets better each year at a faster rate but you just don't notice because you're so immersed in the tech already that it now seems mundane.

Nope, you're just dumb. We are moving faster than ever before with no real end in sight, except for demographic replacement ofc

More taxes than ever. It is estimated that governments in the West take 30-50% of the average citizen's income.

No wonder why all investment is fleeing to SE Asia.

nigger have you seen the advances in computing since 1970 to 2016?

get the fuck up out of my face normie you know nothing of technology

Nanomachines are a wah out, they require too much energy for their size to be usable.

We could cross distances in the 1940s, we could communicate worldwide in the 1940s - later if we mean the internet.

Healthcare by and large has only improved through public health measures, we could benefit massively from robotics, even space travel is going to be a must at some point, genetic manipulation, etc. There are many areas we really should be improving in.

lack of war

Are you fucking stupid? Are you posting on Sup Forums from an 8bit computer?

jews

in particular the privately owned central banks that create money from nothing and lend it at 6% interest, increasing the national debt

and socialism taxing and spending all our money on useless people

>That time saw the invention of computers, space travel, nuclear power, modern medicine, international transport etc.
These fields were massively improved during your timeframe, but the groundwork was done earlier. In hindsight it might look like there's a period of stagnation but I'm sure we will see some interesting developments.
Or maybe just your african appeasement fund is draining funds from R&D.

How about you buy an LG G5 or Samsung Galaxy S7 (edge) and compare it to the phone you had in 2010

>He says this whilst posting on the internet

>US government stops funding those scientific categories and most sciences due to the free market and Soviet collapse
>Soviet Union collapses
>No competition between nations to be the best, China will fix that soon
>Schools started to become standardized bureaucratic convoluted messes in order to get tax dollars instead of educating the kids
>Standards have also been lowered for schools to help those who lag behind; common core, no kid left behind
>If you want to make a decent living you have to go to college now, college isn't meant for everyone and causes less 1 on 1 time for the bright students who get dragged down
>There is no incentive to be smart anymore or invent things, they're stolen by others and people are more interested in Kim Kardashians fat ass in a dress than a break through in aerospace technology

copyright and patents don't mean anything when china just steals them

also Whites aren't encouraged

>technological advancement seems to have comnpletely stagnated.
It hasn't, its just that barely nothing of it reach the public.

This.

Just wait until after winter this time.

So you think there's been a change from pioneering advances to personal consumer advances? That does make sense, but i feel like its still a shame.

It hasn't stop. You expect things too fast.

>CERN
>International space station
>phones that can literally so anything
>virtual reality
>etc


>progress has stopped


Goddamn I fucking hate summer and the dumb nigger Muslims it brings from the UK.

In 2017? You know something we don't user? Care to share?

How about the fucking internet? Cellphones&laptops n shiiet?

>Its in your picture. They're watching black people on tv.
Well at least they got something right.

You are an imbecile and scientific illiterate. In the 60's they couldn't even predict internet, smartphones, emails and so on.
This revolution is about communication, others field advanced too (ex. medicine)

The internet is something I had forgotten and surely is one of the greatest inventions

I don't think it has. It always took time for new things to become mainstream.
You see intel working on 10 nm architectures, display manufacturers going for more than 150hz or new things like oled or laser proyectors. Just look at the CES if you think innovation has stagnated. It's just that now it's mostly focused on computers, robots and AI.
There's driverless cars and automation on everything, and our life now depends so much on technology we take those things for granted, like internet, faster processors every year or things like medicine, which might be why we think there's nothing being done. As for the other things you mentioned, we thought everything was possible but we realised we couldn't do everything.

What would be the purpose of purposefully sealing away tech?

>30-50%
that's a low estimate

vat alone is 20, and standard income tax here is 24, so that's 44%, then extra tax(80%) on fuel(including anything delivered by truck or ship or plane), at least 60% on fags, and booze

Because it's apparently more important to take care of blacks, arabs and muslims like they're children so progress and evolution is on a halt. If anything western nations are now in a state of decay.
Fuck hey we wuz kangz n shit.

> CERN

It found the 'god' particle, which you probably don't even know about and which has had no ramifications in real terms.

> VR

You can now put a screen on your face.

>blaming niggers
>not considering the possibility that maybe the government is surpassing things that compete with oil, because it's owned by the 5 banks that own the worlds biggest 5 oil companies

I think its not true when I was in elementary school I had a Siemens C35 phone and now my phone is stronger then my PC that I had in highschool.

Smartphones and emails existed in sci-fi in the 50s m8

too dangerous, too much better than current tech making a whole industry obselete, for shits and giggles

CERN literally invented time travel.

Everyone is majoring in useless liberal arts and humanities. Being a unique special snowflake with a podium to preach about imagined oppression of illegal immigrants is more important than Egineering or scientific breakthroughs.

Meanwhile, rising economic powerhouses like China and India have so many Engineers they have to look for work abroad just to find some shitty h1b job.

Its only going to get worse.

Yea you're a moron, keep waiting for your moving sidewalks though you fucking faggot

Technologies have developed. The consumer tech loving public is not interested in them therefore you don't see their mass production. Moreover not every government will allow street hoverboarding like Japan

He's still right though.

It's mostly because people stopped understanding that science takes us forward. All your fancy toys are fruits of science and most people nowadays don't understand this obvious fact. This is the reason governments are cutting research massively. First they take endless waves of immigrants from 3rd world countries and then they cut higher education of natives and research.

Why...? They get more feelgood votes in the next election. Democracy has failed so hard it's not even funny.

Isn't it just a shift to different less-visible areas? Like making prosthetic limbs you can control with your mind and VR and stuff like that. Hard to reinvent the atom bomb or the computer. Also yeah probably because we live in such a safe time with lazy underachieving people. No one really cares to put in tons of effort. Or they do and they all fail so we never hear about them.

So they then ADVANCED through scientific PROGRESS into real life. You're so stupid it's painful

>Compared to the boom of from 1940 to 1970, technological advancement seems to have comnpletely stagnated.
People even bothered entertaining this? really?

Time travel happens naturally - inventing it in the sense of travelling back in time is completely impossible.

Thanks for playing

It's a strategic advantage in the case of a possible conflict.

Probably a big part of it. total war forces innovation the results of which are often trailed for civilian purposes after.

but we are all 'happy' fat and peaceful in the west now

Socialism.

>We haven't had a new antibiotic developed in decades and cancer survival rates have only improved 5% since 1950
except that's completely untrue

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_antibiotics

although since you were trying to make the point that humanity is getting stupider, well done, you certainly succeeded there. almost 70 posts in the thread, and no one thought to check if what OP is saying is true

That's not really a response. My response was surprisingly directed at his statement.

I think one issue is that there are technological stages where what you can do with medicine increases.
With the IT technology we have now we can have complex data analysis and display of medical imaging in way that weren't possible decades ago. But that doesn't let us rewrite DNA or whatever, however we have swallowable cameras now.
To make massive changes in how diseases are treated is possible but we need to be at a higher tech level to realize them.
Of course there is also the issue that smartphone technology and shit is unrestricted pure competition while medical technology is very very political and hugely encumbered in red tape and so it's easier to make angry birds 5 than it is to develop a new X-ray scanner to look inside somebody's testicle

religion

Jews
Political Correctness
THE INTERNET RAISING THE NEWER GENERATIONS

Supersonic flight is just so much more expensive than a comfy mach 0.85. Planes are getting more and more efficient instead, a 777 uses a tiny amount of fuel compared to an early 747 from the 70s and carries a similar number of passengers.
Rocket technology is improving too, webm related.

Well, theres no benefit for men being high acheivers any more. Women aren't interested in "career scientists", "career engineers".

We can't exactly turn into oppressed brown people or Tyrones with foot long cocks so we just play video games and masturbate to internet porn. Sorry about that, forefathers, but thats what you get for letting cunts vote.

This.

>Computer progress
Still booming, don't you bongs notice? Hard Drives are becoming less common as SSDs begin to become common for PCs. Vidya games are running smoother, faster, and in better detail than ever (from major developers). A big advancement isn't always in the amount of the computing power, but often in the ability to miniaturize it, something that was never imaginable back then.

>Space Travel
I'm stumped. I'll blame the Jews, they probably don't want us using Nazi designed rockets to leave the hell hole they want. However, you can't say people aren't trying to continue to advance in this category, even if national/multinational space agencies have given up on propelling humanity into the stars, fulfilling our rightful destiny as conquerors of the stars.

>Nuclear Power/Energy
Green Energy and Coal lobbies have fucked Nuclear in the States, and most people are too misinformed to see the benefits of fusion research. The first country to develop and use Fusion as an energy source will become a super power, mark my words.

>Travel/Transport
Maglev trains are the future. The problem is powering them over long distances, and I think Nuclear Fusion would be a great solution for this. Also, cars are getting more and more fuel efficient, and are gradually leaning toward other sources, like electric. While Electric cars may still have issues, the tech will improve.

>Medicine
Some things in medicine are hard to advance. Others have made leaps and bounds since the 70's. You might have metal sticks attatched to your leg stump in the 70's, but look at what Oscar Pistorious was able to do with prosthetics (no, not kill his wife, the Olympics thing). While many medical treatments have not boomed, the tech surrounding the medicine and utilized by the docs have improved greatly. In 1971, a CT scan took 5 minutes to get an image. Now, Siemmens has made one that takes an image in a second.

everything is fault of Slavshits and Cuckians

remove them and a base on Pluto is ready in 5 years

in 20 years we reach Alfa Centauri

and in 100 the whole galaxy is ours

Big Government, which leads to Cronyism, which leads to less competition, which leads to stagnant technology and innovation.

brown people

Fuck i hate these dumb made up graphs.
I hope you're too young to understand how stupid you are so as to avoid embarrassing yourself further.

>This.
is bullshit

Interesting, I drew the information from two articles - perhaps they meant a major class of antibiotics?

As for cancer rates I have no idea where they came up with that then, but your stat doesn't seem realistic either: 99.9% prostate cancer survival rate?? I know someone who's died from it.

wait for war or jetpack?

>What would be the purpose of purposefully sealing away tech?
Economic reasons, they want to make money selling oil and coal.

And what would happen if some one had anti gravity FTL saucer and just allah snackbar'd it into new york? These things have existed for a long ass time now.

Also the military is saving its toys for the next big wars. Programs like the f-35 is really just money laundering for black budget projects.

Computers have advanced massively though, right now we live in the Information Age for a reason.

Hippies environmentalist bums.
But hey you got your touchscreen phone surveiling you? Thats progress. Internet too. So fuck off.

mfw Christians were referred to as "atheists" by the Romans because they refused to be involved in roman religious festivals.
mfw this faggot thinks Christianity is the only religion and pre-Christian Europe had no religion.

Nigga, you are so stupid.

It's not like we destroyed everything when the huns came in and sacked the eastern empire.

How is loads of people dying a good solution?
there are other options

ITT: Sup Forums blames blacks for yet another unrelated occurance

The real reason for the technological slowdown is that most of our technology needs have been met. We're simply running out of ideas for things than can improve our lives. We are at peak moderness.. meaning it's never going to get better than it is right now, and if it does, it will be only marginally. Massive fullscale production of robots is about the only thing that could bring meaningful change to our way of life. I.e. robots manning every factpry, doing the chores, trimming the palm trees, etc.. and that might be coming in our life time.

I've had a capsule endoscopy though and even then its old technology, the camera is much larger than any smartphone camera and you have to wear a sizeable belt to receive the signal and store the images.

Not saying it isn't an advancement but its using technology a decade old.

Feminism.

virtual reality applied to science (such visualization) will probably be a catalyst to all areas including aero spatial, educational possibilities are endless too.

you're an idiot, there's nothing new coming.

Women's liberation. A nerd who can't get laid has no stake in society and therefore no reason to improve it. Shill for tech companies to afford a cushy living, ignore rest of the world.

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Why does Sup Forums, when it comes to technology, always look forward towards colonizing other planets?