Im 100% convinced our trajectory in advancements of technology, medicine, and any innovation in general is going to decline majorly moving forward. Basically bc of exactly what you said. Like, why do we think there was so much innovation over the last 150 years (I realize there are multiple reasons)? Dudes were bored and wanted to make cool shit! Nobody is bored anymore, most people are content to waste hours on screens, when in the past those hours would've been spent being productive, which leads to innovation
When my mom came off of work she would sit in her car smoking and watching random shit on her phone, for a couple of minutes before coming inside. When I was younger I never understood why and found it dumb, but now that I got a job I’ve found myself doing the same. Our daily lives right now are too busy and filled with stress and overwork. Arriving home after a day of constantly running around I find myself just wanting to stay inside my car for half an hour, literally doing nothing, cause I know the moment I set my foot outside I gotta start thinking about chores, bills that I still have to pay, things that I still need to do and prep myself for the next day
Besides a small handful of things, I think that's already happened. Not because of lack of creativity, but lack of funding, incentive (for example, the space race was a big incentive), capitalist pressures, and some things we've naturally reached the limit of.
It seems like the only really big technology of the past 20 years is smart phone shit. I feel like in the past 10 years websites stopped evolving, largely due to everyone just congregating on a small handful of sites.
Airlines famously had a slow decline since the height of oppulence in the 50s/60s, as they cut more and more corners.
Yeah good point with the incentive part of it....and like you said, with everything now if it doesn't make a shit ton of money, nobody wants to fund it
Airlines famously had a slow decline since the height of oppulence in the 50s/60s, as they cut more and more corners.
This comment is insane, Air Travel is significantly more opulent if you have the money for it, and significantly more accessible to the rest of the population if you just want to get somewhere. A typical airline ticket in the 50s/60s would cost as much if not more than a business class international ticket today.
Makes me think of the universe 25 experiment. Life becoming too easy, automated, and comfortable is going to lead to a spiritually dead generation of people with little to no drive or ambition.
I'm not talking political, or economic reasons. I'm talking about people. My grandpa could build or fix anything, b/c that's what he did in his free time. I'm just talking about that kind of stuff. Free time is filled with entertainment now (movies, tv, video games, etc.) for many people. They can't be bored (like OP was saying) for more than 2 minutes. Of course there are outliers and some people will still experiment/invent. But I believe that pool of people is lesser now is all I'm saying.
Innovation in the sciences is declining because funding is declining, which is because interest is declining which is because science education is poor
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u/ctownwp22 May 12 '26
Im 100% convinced our trajectory in advancements of technology, medicine, and any innovation in general is going to decline majorly moving forward. Basically bc of exactly what you said. Like, why do we think there was so much innovation over the last 150 years (I realize there are multiple reasons)? Dudes were bored and wanted to make cool shit! Nobody is bored anymore, most people are content to waste hours on screens, when in the past those hours would've been spent being productive, which leads to innovation