QUESTION: Modern humans have been on Earth for hundreds of thousands of years with slow progress – why did innovation suddenly explode in the last 200ish years?
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imo …. the “engine revolution” …starting with water, steam, electrical, magnetism, diesel, gas, solar, nuclear, plasma …. next? a dark energy engine?
The industrial revolution began around 1760 and began accelerating around 1830-1840. Developments like steam power were an incentive for further innovations.
Stock markets
In the 1820s was the first passenger railroad, electric motor, and the
first photograph. The telegraph was invented in the 1830s.
In the last seventy years, the most exponential innovation that occurred,
and is still exploding rapidly is the space program. Without it, we wouldn’t
have anything near the technology we have today. Home computers,
smartphones, smart appliances, electric vehicles, the electronic gadgets
in newer cars, all the electronic gadgets that have become must haves
for so many people, and the high-tech weaponry we’ve been seeing on
the news lately. Cordless tools, scratch resistant lenses, water purification
systems, and LED lights, were developed to solve problems in space.
The list goes on and on and on, and we owe it all to NASA and the space
program where it all began.
There are a lot of “unintended benefits” from NASA research and development. Most people do not realize how small the NASA budget is, which at around $25B is only about 0.35% of the federal budget. If only one penny of every dollar of the federal budget was used to fund NASA, their budget would be approximately 3 times what it is now. During the peak of the Apollo Program it was around 4% of the federal budget. Also, much of the NASA budget is spent on private sector jobs. A penny for NASA!
Plumbing & Water treatment.
Aliens shared their tech in exchange for gold. They have rolled it out incremently as not to raise suspicions, how about that!!!
Reverse engineering extraterrestrial technology.
Lots of factors contributed, and the dramatic fast increase in literacy was among them. Really interesting topic. If only I could read..
Smoking tobacco.
Yes I know it’s been around for thousands of years but it only became enormously widespread and popular amongst everybody in the early 1800’s and especially so with the invention of cigarettes and then mass production.
Something about the nicotine stimulation activating some people’s brain cells more than others maybe?
Who knows for certain?
Anyway, after most of us quit smoking for our health, a lot of people dumbed down and the Democrats began winning more elections.
Why do you think everyone still smokes in Russia & China?… their government forces them to and tries to pick out the brainiacs to invent faster rockets and bigger bombs!
I should note however that I could be completely wrong about all those things.
Just out of curiosity I checked around and look what I found.
My cockamamie theory actually has some supporting evidence!
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jIVYCAahW1Q
The rise of individualism as a political movement in western socities.
A subconscious desire to destroy one’s own environment, and to control others while doing it.