>Uhm yeah you're comparing an 80 year period with two world wars and the development of modern physics and engineering with a 25 year period of stability.
Uhm,
(1) I measured up to 1960. Since then it's a 61 year period, not a 25 year one.
(2) That period having "two world war" versus our "stability" makes my point even more. One would expect a period without 2 world wars bothering it, and with stability to enjoy, to produce more.
(3) "and the development of modern physics and engineering" that's my point exactly. That we enjoyed the low hanging fruit of that development and now we've stagnated and get much less impressive feats.
Yes, so? You said "you're comparing an 80 year period (...) with a 25 year period of stability".
But I just compared 80 years with 60 years (and those 80 years also had the handicap of two world wars, and much less available resources).
Does it matter? Do you see anything of the scale of 1880-1960's inventions and discoveries appearing in the next 20 years?
Or do you think if we keep it to 60-60, say 1900-1960 and 1960-2020 it changes anything?
>Only someone ignorant of history. WW2 gave a huge incentive and a ton of resources to develop technology.
Only someone ignorant of history would also not know that WW1 and WW2 killed thousands of the brightest minds and millions of young people at their prime, disturbed research in tons of areas, diminished resources in affected countries (all of Europe for one for almost 2 decades), and caused the loss of trillions of resources, having a devastating effect which makes weapons and military systems research pale in comparison.
Uhm,
(1) I measured up to 1960. Since then it's a 61 year period, not a 25 year one.
(2) That period having "two world war" versus our "stability" makes my point even more. One would expect a period without 2 world wars bothering it, and with stability to enjoy, to produce more.
(3) "and the development of modern physics and engineering" that's my point exactly. That we enjoyed the low hanging fruit of that development and now we've stagnated and get much less impressive feats.