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When you hear people saying that technology has stagnated, that person clearly isn't following advancements in medicine. The medical tech I see now just blow me away.
I've heard of lab-grown flesh cloned from a burn victim's own flesh replacing the need for an invasive skin graft retrieval, and a gold nanoparticle mixture placed into an old spinal cord injury to cause microscopic damage and force the body to resume healing the severed nerves. Those are the big two I like to talk about. I'm optimistic about things like whole working artificial organs in the next 50 years
It's not about tech stagnating, but about it not lasting. They say "they don't make it like they used to" for a reason.
That's just an entirely separate matter. Definitely truth to planned obsolescence in some cases and lower quality materials used in many products.
But I have heard many people say technology in general has stagnated. Consumer tech keeps getting more powerful largely without major perceivable changes, and looking at developments in key fields is where we can most notably see developments.
Yeah, I know it's an entirely separate matter than the one you're talking about. But I think OP was talking about build quality, and not tech stagnating, haha
Oh wow you are totally right.. I must've misread the question as I was starting to pass out last night.
That's not the first time I've done that...
Haha, it happens!
The advancements in gene editing, vaccines, and biologics is mind boggling. We're looking at curing diseases that we couldn't have cured until recently.
*the rich are looking at curing diseases. The rest of us will just die because we can’t afford a 7-figure price tag and the insurance companies just laugh at us until we croak.
Unless is Bio-rad. All my homies hate Bio-rad.