It truly is extraordinary when you think about it. But dont think this trend is likely to carry forward. Technology growth is logarithmic, not exponential. It starts off exponential then slows down significantly. At least, thats what the trend looks like when you really break it down. Lets hope some new area of technology never before considered is discovered to keep it going.
@denza252 In one persons lifetime we went from having no real concept of "memory" other than encoding 1's and 0's as waves in a pool of liquid (we are talking double digit bits of memory) to having tens of gigabytes of memory... The leaps have been huge :)
@ic3l9 No i meant logarithmic. It slows down over time but never reaches a horizontal asymptote like logistic functions would.
@freemo
1769 - man drives
1885 - automobile production
1903 - man flies
1969 - man on moon
1998 - International Space Station
202X - commercial public spaceflight
20XX - Space Colonization
21XX - first space colony deliberately dropped on an earth
24XX - Galactic space wars ensue for limited resources
3XXX - first intelligent alien life encountered outside solar system
42XX - wormhole technology perfected. Man travels beyond the stars.
6666 - the satanic alien race invades earth
7777 - the rapture
9999 - earth is dead
10,000 - mankind ceases as known today ceases to exist in any respect and had transcended all fucks given to science and the then-manipulated multiverse
11,111 - terminal chaos has splintered beyond feasible calculations
XXX.### - time/space collapses in on itself as everything gets crushed into singularity
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1996 - everything gets reset as God realized he slept on the job and had to restore from his last saved backup on his HDD. The universe runs on Linux btw.