Why has human progress ground to halt

[snoorkel]

http://aeon.co/magazine/science/why-has-human-progress-ground-to-a-halt/

Discuss

PCs and screen widgets are a fad that we will simply not have in 50 years. we're wasting our time.

[silvertone]

there has been no paradigm shift.

[ME##]

humans no longer live in the fear of total destruction by nuclear weapons.  without this pressing fear, all of our r&d time has gone to making the best time wasters

[don't let's]

Media

[Socks]

I don't agree that human progress has ground to a halt. But human progress has changed its speed relative to human population increasing and the disorder within human communities increasing. Let me explain by imagery and anology. If you push a stiff stick forward for example, you will see the same reach at the end which is applied to push at the beginning. This represents both less human population and order. Now, if you push a shoelace, the end reach will not be the same because this object is not organized or constructed the same as the stick, so it will just curl and seem to go nowhere, even if it is moving. This represents human overpopulation and disorder, typified by the focus on the individual and many life options available today. So it takes more push (development) today, to reach the same speed (progress) of previous human efforts and history. Mostly since the industrial revolution because this theory falls apart in nuance when applied to the human time before that.

I will pop some stuff in my mouth and nose and will update this topic from my brain soon.

[silvertone]

there is no more nazi scientists, unethical science is the key to progress. that's how we got out of the dark ages 1000 years ago

[Socks]

Dark ages were alive and well in Europe 1000 years ago sir.

[silvertone]

the dark ages didnt end in a day. but it was invented in one

[klappa]

Offshore drilling.
Mudslimes.
Slavs.
Weed.
The Mario Board.
Furries.
Everything Japanese.
Suburban Ameriburgers.

[Socks]

What happened to my earlier post? Did I accidentally delete it?

[Kalahari Inkantation]

What happened to my earlier post? Did I accidentally delete it?

somebody did

it's been restored

[caponehollywood]

no more centralized power. liberalism in the modern sense. everyone's too fucking cozy to take risks, and there's no incentive to

[silvertone]

no more centralized power. liberalism in the modern sense. everyone's too fucking cozy to take risks, and there's no incentive to

maybe people aren't cozy enough

[Travis]

there has been no paradigm shift.

[caponehollywood]

no more centralized power. liberalism in the modern sense. everyone's too fucking cozy to take risks, and there's no incentive to

maybe people aren't cozy enough

the people that should be too cozy aren't cozy enough, and those that shouldn't be are