The article is pure garbage.
The areas of invention simply shifted from trying to kill people and burn things up, to
shrinking and expanding the capabilities of the mechanisms of technology.
- Your smart phone would weight 2200 pounds with 10MB hard drive if this was 1980.
- Electric cars are now a reality
- Laser eye surgery
- Neurosurgery, organ transplants
- Chemical treatment of psychiatric disease
- Replacement of the Vacuum tube by solid state
- Human transport : Michigan, Alabama, Texas and more have invented ways to make 100k people appear in an instant in one structure.
Happens only on Saturday though.
