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Are we done?

 Human ingenuity has always surpassed what the prior generation achieved and continued its upward march to the present. 2024.

Or has it?  Do you feel like I do that the capacity for true human innovation petered out somewhere around 1970?

What has followed is perhaps a slow incremental progress in certain domains with the global availability to information in the form of world wide web being the only major breakthrough of the past three decades?

Think about this.

Man designed, deployed and successfully landed on our only natural satellite - the moon in 1969 and since then made 12 successful attempts. Then it stopped.  This was when the rockets used to send men to the moon had computing power that looks puny by comparison to what an average schmoe carries in their smartphone.

What did we do with all that leap in computing? Created disasters like Facebook and Instagram. Mental depression as a direct result of use or overuse of these software has led to massive productivity loss and loss of human life than any time in history.  People have forgotten to interact with each other.

The average human today is less educated on a per capita basis than they were in 1970. That was over 50 years ago today.

There is more violent crime and general lack of decorum than there was in 1970.

There are more expensive mishaps with highly expensive military and commercial aerospace equipment than ever in history.

There is twice as many humans on this limited capacity planet than we had in 1970. The medical profession is completely clueless and cannot get their hands around understanding or solving the most pressing of issues - common colds.  Let alone have a definitive way to deal with SARS virus and its branches.

Hospitals worldwide are overrun and there are long wait times to get even preventive testing done - and this is happening at alarming rates here in America too.

The political landscape is another beast which has basically devolved into criminals openly running for highest office and the general populace so brain washed and incompetent in its thinking that it accepts that as a normal status quo.

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