@HeavenlyPossum @srijit you have the world's information at your fingertips, video calls with people on the other side of the planet, modern medicines and surgeries, titanium and other unique alloys are available to the public.

We figured out how to almost perfectly control the layout of atomic particles with nanotechnology (semiconductors, artificial diamonds).

Technological advancement is *declining* since the 1970s? I'm not convinced.