Advancement

I want to start another interesting debate. This one is about human technology. At what point in time are the most revolutionary technological developments made?

I strongly encourage you to vote and present your opinions, even if you are not certain of them.

I'll start by presenting my perspective. I personally agree the most with...

Option 2: The Past

Only several technological developments were truly innovative in the 1930~2010 period. Things that already existed in 1930, such as telecommunications, aeroplanes, and mechanical calculators got better and cheaper, but only a few new inventions were made. Contrast this with the 1850~1930 period, when new inventions revolutionized life every decade. The tank, developed in 1915, revolutionized warfare in just a few decades. The telegraph enabled instant text communication for the first time. Mechanical calculators were already developed by 1900. Coal, electricity, penicillin, all were revolutionary. Even in the political arena, ideologies such as communism and fascism both developed in this time. The lack of truly new inventions in later periods show that growth of technology is slowing.

Past: Agriculture made all the difference

In the future, human history is only a few thousand years in, we can't judge weather there was a better advancement in the past than the future (but I'm betting on the future)

The chip man, it changed everything,communication, systems , our way of life , even the war, we passed from a huge computer that only made basic maths to all our tecnology, in only 50 years, though i can't know about the futute

The invention of fire..... humans could migrate too and past colder areas colonizing vast new lands. With fire, meat could be cooked allowing evolution to cause humans (or a predecessor) to develop a smaller jaw allowing for more room for a bigger brain. without fire, everything from electricity to heat would be virtually non existent. humanity would not have been able to advance as fast as it did.

a second development would be the neolithic revolution. with the introduction of agriculture, bands of humans could join together into a village, a town, a city. farming, while a dangerous job at the time (7x more likely to be killed then a forager), would create a SURPLUS (most important word of civilization ) allowing for job specialization, the development of writing, religion, monumental architecture, etc. and ultimately civilization.

Between 1789-1945. The new concept of liberty( if we define technology as "scientific knowledge made for be useful to the humanity") and the nuclear bomb really affected us as individual.

In 1789 there was a country who finally though about every human as "equal". Progress was made even though it was not enough. Terms such as "Superior" and "Inferior" started to decline after that..... we finally started to see ourselves as all humans. Black, White, Prussian, English, African, Robber, Cheft, MailMen, King, slave.... They all are, after all, humans. Of course this concept of freedom eventually researched his end, but open up the concept of liberty that we [generally] have today.

In 1945 the world watch scared the disastrous effects of the science and the Nuclear Bombs. If you though the world was "plane" in the past, now you know it can be not only destroyed, but also your ADN can mutate. Is like a own "meteor" made by humans, that in the wrong hand , only one shot can damage more than half the world population.

An end to want... Sometime in the future...

Ironically, this is in the preamble of the UN Declaration of Rights (second phrase => 'freedom from want') and we now have the 'technology' to provide all with enough to sustain themselves.

All of the 'gadget' and 'material' technology in the world cannot lead to further advancements if we are unable to respect the fundamental requirements of each individual's development and expression of will.

I certainly agree that all of the historical advancements, such as agriculture/animal domestication, fire, the chip, and liberty, as mentioned by Autumn, Black Shark, Havok, Tito, Clovis, Phoenix King and others - all of these were critical in reaching the technological foundation to make feasible an 'end to want'. But i believe it is because the technology required for an 'end to want' is built upon these monumental technological achievements, that this will be the greatest leap in technological advancement, as it will unleash everyone's potential.

We've had decades to execute this now... but there are apparently even more advanced technologies blocking implementation.

Great topic international !!
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