The Invention Slowdown Is a Lie. Here’s What’s Actually Happening.
The Wikipedia timeline of historic inventions stops in 2020, making it feel like human innovation has hit a wall. But this is a dangerous optical illusion. The paradox of our era is that innovation is accelerating faster than ever, yet our ability to recognize historic milestones in real-time is broken. We are living inside the blast radius of the next century’s most important breakthroughs—we just can’t see them yet.