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Innovation Getting Slower?
Daniel Dvorkin writes "A New Scientist article details the claims of Jonathan Huebner, a Naval Air Warfare Center physicist, that the rate of technological innovation is actually decreasing, not increasing exponentially as some people believe. Huebner says that there are now fewer 'important technological developments per billion people' than at any time since the 17th century! I'm far from convinced, but it's an interesting and thought-provoking article." From the article: "He says the rate of technological innovation reached a peak a century ago and has been declining ever since. And like the lookout on the Titanic who spotted the fateful iceberg, Huebner sees the end of innovation looming dead ahead."
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Personally, I blame slashdot. I could be inventing some crazy shit if I didn't have to check this site every 5 minutes.
Lack of innovation has always been their trademark.
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. - Cmdr. Susan Ivanova
The death of innovation is due to apathy.
I was going to invent a solution to the problem, but who cares?
Innovation has been patented.
It's a good thing the world sucks or we'd all fall off.
As long as your space ship has a ray-gun you'll be fine... sure many have "patented" it... but the first to build a spaceship with lasers gets to fry the other guys!!!
Perhaps in another 20 years, we'll all learn what the plural form of "virus" is.
But otherwise, you have some good points.
we may be getting fewer innovations, but the quality of them is clearly on the rise