beachmike t1_irq1xvp wrote on October 10, 2022 at 4:06 AM

We are not even close to reaching a tech plateau, and never will unless we somehow destroy ourselves. Tech advancements are often unpredictable and come out of left field, or they are hiding in plain sight until mass adoption makes them hard not to see. Overall, technological advancement is relentless and accelerating. As the sci-fi author William Gibson has stated, "The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed."

CleaverIam OP t1_irsm12d wrote on October 10, 2022 at 6:50 PM

So what major technology has come to common use in the last decade?

beachmike t1_irv101p wrote on October 11, 2022 at 6:45 AM

LED lighting

Smartphones

4K TV

Narrow AIs with pattern recognition ability superior to human, e.g., facial recognition

CleaverIam OP t1_irv2w3g wrote on October 11, 2022 at 7:11 AM

4k TV is not much more practical then normal tv. A slight improvement that changes nothing in practice. We had smartphone in 2009. I said they got significantly cheaper which IS a major improvement, but that has already happened by 2016. Smartphones haven't changed in a meaningful way since.

I am not familiar enough with AI. That does sound like a major improvement, I will give you that

beachmike t1_isx4t8p wrote on October 19, 2022 at 10:36 AM

Now you're making little value judgments as to which advancement YOU deem worthy. Nevertheless, they are technological advancements that have become widespread over the last decade. It doesn't matter if they didn't happen EXACTLY within the last decade. Bottom line, we are no where near a tech "plateau." Advancements are unpredictable, and often happen in fits and starts.

CleaverIam OP t1_it2vhre wrote on October 20, 2022 at 3:18 PM

I agree with your last sentence. But from my perspective, we are at an end of a fit with mo start on sight...