The true age of innovation ran from approximately 1945 to 1971. Just about everything that defines the modern world either came about, or had its seeds sown, during this time. The Pill. Electronics. Computers and the birth of the internet. Nuclear power. Television. Antibiotics. Space travel. Civil rights. Feminism. Mass aviation. The birth of the gay rights movement. Cheap, reliable and safe automobiles. High-speed trains. We put a man on the Moon, sent a probe to Mars, beat smallpox and discovered the double-spiral key of life. Today, progress is defined almost entirely by consumer-driven, often banal improvements in information technology. As the US technologist Peter Thiel once put it: ‘We wanted flying cars, we got 140 characters.’ Michael Hanlon in Aeon
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 03:33:22 +0000
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