Molson Hart

Company formation is not a measure of innovation nor impact. Somewhat. What about all the random stuff that you don't even consider? Boosted boards, microwaves that are GOOD+cheap, electric lawnmowers, etc. All last 30 years.

Come on. Boosted boards? Those dumb remote control skateboards? Compare that to the steam engine, airplane, car, locomotives, supersonic jets, toilets, crazy amounts of medical innovation, television, internet, etc.

For the century it took to do those, we have a corresponding set of innovations since 2000. Web 2.0/3.0 Blockchain Cloud Javascript* (ok close to 2000!) .. and those are just in tech. They're everywhere beyond that.

Web 2.0 is not bad Jury is out on blockchain's value for the world Cloud is awesome Javascript seems pretty mediocre Mobile internet I think is the biggest one you didn't mention.

As we dig into these, I'd argue now that innovation has INCREASED versus the times you mention. Here's one: We're talking on a global platform where people send one to many text messages. Or we have another where a course on ANYTHING is available for free (Youtube).

I could go on and on. My premise is that we're living in a world of innovation -- but we have a psychological bias that we are in it so we don't realize what's happening. The proverbial "boiling versus scalded frog."

That’s a good point but you’d agree that hardware innovation has majorly slowed right?

How so? We have: exoskletons for cheap (See @trexorobotics) iphones robotic warehouses cheap solar and a bonus one: no airplane crashes in the US in decades. I'd argue it's just as much in hardware innovation.