Arguably, the 20 year period that saw the fastest rate of technological & scientific change was 1880-1900, when much of the Western world transitioned from pre-industrial to industrial. We went from no skyscrapers to 300+m towers & 100+m buildings, from 0 cars to thousands, etc.
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1980-2000: personal computers, the Internet. 2000-2020: ubiquitous smartphones, wireless Internet, most things move from offline to online. You experienced 2000-2020, and a number of you also experienced 1980-2000. So this poll should be interesting.
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And follow-up: do you expect science & technology to change more over the next 20 years compared to 2000-2020?
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It is a general fact of human nature that on average people are more optimistic than warranted by their own experience, and expect more of the future than what has been happening in the past -- so I know where this is going
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The progress now is faster if we consider the amount of time it takes to something go from it's development stages to actual deployment But this is different than measuring the impact that those changes made. For me, this gives more room for discussion than your question
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Faxes were a major leap in 80s from mail and most financial disclosures by corps were available by 1997 ... lowest hanging fruit
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