Technological Stagnation

Yup the dream of gbit is over. Now waiting for 10gbe

>>57252739
Space exploration. Literally had the moon in the 1970s and now all we do is go in circles.

Graphene

Aircraft is the first one that comes to mind, actually, most things military have slowed or stopped since the Cold War.

>>57253020
No they haven't.
The tech just isn't declassified yet.

>>57253050
Even if tech is being developed, it sure as hell isn't being put into action.

>>57252739

Everything except electronics, where Moore's law has been huge.

But even software has been actually stagnated since the 70s. Computer graphics mostly the only exception.

>>57253096
>But even software has been actually stagnated since the 70s
The fuck?

>>57252968
Anon, the end of the Apollo program was the best thing that's happened to space exploration. It's when it stopped being about dick waving and started being about actual science. There was no stagnation.

Concorde and Blackbird SR-71

Why are super fast planes not a thing anymore?
I would have loved to travel in a Concorde. But that will never be a reality, and I would actually be able to afford a ticket now

>>57253206

There is a reason they stopped flying Anon.

Still not having 100% electric cars and killing the oil industry for good.

>>57253206
Normal planes are good enough for most people - innovation is all about fuel efficiency. Also, sonic boom. Concorde was achieving supersonic speeds only over the ocean, it's illegal to do something like this over a populated area.

>>57253270
I know
But they shouldn't scrap them just because they hit a few problems.
That's the point where you're supposed to improve, not just give up.
Giving up gets you no where

>>57253273
>Muh green energy
>Oil is evil look at the poor polar bears on the melting ice caps goyim

The only people who support electric cars over gas cars at the moment don't understand where the electricity comes from (Coal Plants). Coal is worse than oil in all ways.

>>57253284
Just go high enough

>>57253206
>>57253284
Here's a Concorde sonic boom. It's no joke.

https://youtu.be/yoppyspj-Ro

>>57253309
It still takes time to climb, and planes can only go so high before they get starved for air.

>>57253270

Concorde was proven to be safe after a many year investigation. The accident had nothing to do with the plane but with the airport.

>On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590, registration F-BTSC, crashed in Gonesse, France after departing from Paris-Charles de Gaulle en route to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, killing all 100 passengers and 9 crew members on board the flight, and 4 people on the ground. It was the only fatal accident involving Concorde.

>According to the official investigation conducted by the Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile (BEA), the crash was caused by a metallic strip that fell from a Continental Airlines DC-10 that had taken off minutes earlier. This fragment punctured a tyre on Concorde's left main wheel bogie during take-off. The tyre exploded, and a piece of rubber hit the fuel tank, which caused a fuel leak and led to a fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde

>>57253309
>Concorde's high cruising altitude meant passengers received almost twice the flux of extraterrestrial ionising radiation as those travelling on a conventional long-haul flight. To prevent incidents of excessive radiation exposure, the flight deck had a radiometer and an instrument to measure the rate of decrease of radiation. If the radiation level became too high, Concorde would descend below 47,000 feet (14,000 m).

>>57253096
Don't do drugs, Anon.

>>57253326
The accident was just an excuse, the real reasons were economical. Concorde just wasn't making money.

>>57253351
Couldn't they just improve the shielding?

>>57253351
Due to the proportionally reduced flight time, the overall equivalent dose would normally be less than a conventional flight over the same distance

>>57253299
Killin' the good vibes, brother. Peace on Earth and good will towards men.

:^)

>>57253378
How? Coat it with lead or something? It would make the plane too heavy.

Technological stagnation or even regression is one of the last phases before civilizations end. Beware it is not ludditism, people still adore technology, but will actively opt for inferior solutions over and over, until suddenly they have only rocks and sticks and consider it the epitome of progress. iStone.

>normie phonefags: let's keep underpowered meme iphones, because le status signalling meme
>normie internet users: shitty dialup and cable is better than commie fttx, because it comes bundled with CNN
>4chan: lets keep using shitty on2 codec instead of one with far superior tooling
>jews: pc revolution was a mistake, it gave goy too much freedom. so better go back to mainframe rental computing.

Concorde was a canary, but falls into the same category in aviation.

>>57253440
How is iphone underpowered? Are you high or something?

>>57253502
What do you mean you can't have gig internet from comcast? Are you high or something? Just pay 500 bucks for it, like a normal person.

There are things like cost fundamentals and market margin pressure. Neither comcast, nor apple has any. They both underdeliver for the price compared to rest of the market.

>>57253556
>They both underdeliver for the price compared to rest of the market.

iphone is a high end product. Of course the price/performance ratio isn't as good as in mid and low-end phones. It's always like this - expensive sports cars, high-end guitars, electronics etc.

>>57253326
>>57253376
>>57253298

Also two points, it wasn't economical back then and it surely wouldn't be now with the 'Air Bus' mentality. Given as well with this generations limitations on everything from pollution to efficiency per pound, it would be hemorrhaging money. They would struggle to find an intake of passengers when they also have to adjust the already expensive fare to make up for their losses and taxes levied on air travel.

That's why air travel is now about packing as many fucking people and cargo in as possible, as to subside the losses out of the gate.

Finally about that accident. Although it was a foreign issue with regards to the plane itself. If it was a Boeing or any other long haul model, that issue would most likely have not ended as it did.

The Concorde is fast and sleek, and also difficult to control as it has no bulk to keep it sluggish. When something goes wrong it'll happen fast and quick, with little response time .

I personally liked the idea of the Concorde, faster international air travel is a step in the right direction, but unfortunately it's not economical on a corporate and personal level.

>>57253643
>expensive sports cars
Have measurable performance characteristic.
>high-end guitars
They do sometimes suffer from iphone effect, but those are not consumer goods.
>electronics
Welp, iphone isnt electronics, it's a holy porn rectangle!

>>57253643
>iphone is a high end product
lmao

>>57252739
We just need to wait for mass production of HSMG

>>57253651
>I personally liked the idea of the Concorde, faster international air travel is a step in the right direction, but unfortunately it's not economical on a corporate and personal level.

What about private jets, then?

>>57253158
technological advancement has always stemmed from dick waving

>>57253752

If you've got money, then air travel is never an issue. I don't necessarily think it's any faster either, but having a private jet to yourself has a way of making a twelve hour trip less of a bother to begin with.

>>57253828
>I don't necessarily think it's any faster either

The point is not being limited by takeoff schedule, you simply charter a jet and go.

Cessna X is a bit faster than line jet, but not by
much indeed.

There are multiple supersonic civil jets being "tested" privately, first to go on sale public by 2020 or so.

Why hasn't there been an equivalent of the PC open source revolution for smart phones?

Instead we get "consoles" (aka apple/xbox, Verizon/Playstation)

Would love to mix and match parts and build a custom autism phone

>>57253651
Also Concorde wasn't American, and America was super salty that they couldn't do what the Frogs and the Limeys did.

I'm using a 10 year old laptop that feels far more modern and up-to-date than a Commadore 64 would have felt compared to an Amiga A1200.

Or an A1200 compared to a machine running XP.

>>57253961
>Would love to mix and match parts and build a custom autism phone

Chinks do it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glp_CzsEC0M

As for easily modular phone, that's not really feasible yet. You need good smd electronics skills, but in shenzen its no problem to do a production run in terms of individual pieces (!) - you just go to a specialized shop to "assemble your PC".

Want more ram in chink phone? No problem, solder that fucker on. NAND? Sames. Baseband? Got four vendors.Cameras? Sames. The biggest problem chinks have is software (hw choices limited by what particular editions of chinkware for that SoC can stomach).

Murricans have a huge console problem on their hands indeed, basically being brainwashed by the closed ecosystems "muh xbox live and 30fps is fine".

Look at the shit the top technologies are churning out these days: overrated pieces of junk which are dated as soon as they are released. Spyware-ridden buggy os's.

Even the free software end of things is affected. People only seem to work on hipster desktop environments which are completely unusable, and system management software which reinvents the wheel for the 20th time and is just as big of a mess as the other 19 solutions.

We've hit a pothole for sure with tech.

>>57254180
>normies ruining sw engineering
Self inflicted market failure. Same happened to food industry.
People want sugary bullshit? Well, that is what they get, because it sells.
Another example of consumer induced market failure is anime moeblob cancer of 2010s.

>>57252739
and how come no one replied on this neat finger board

>>57252739
I actually bought a DataHand, and it just sucks IMO.
Toggling the up/down switches is tolerable, but the lateral ones, especially for the middle and ring fingers is just unnatural and uncomfortable.

Beyond that, the mapping is pretty much fixed unless you have an Atmel (IIRC) flasher and wanted to reverse engineer the ROM.
And the default key layers/modalities suck.

It's a neat concept, but nobody should even consider this unless they're in stage 4 terminal bonitis.

>>57253158
>It's when it stopped being about dick waving and started being about actual science.
The space shuttle was very much dick waving. There were all sorts of missions planned by the Apollo Applications Program but they were shelved in favor of the space shuttle since it could carry military payloads into space. The space shuttle was never meant to be used for science.

>>57253299
My electricity is 70 or 80% nuclear

Home appliances only marginally advanced since the 50s (with few exceptions like the microwave oven but the tech was there for some time too)

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>tfw you will never see planck-scale transistors

>>57255741
>he doesnt clean his energy for purer electrons

>>57253273
>oil is only used for gasoline
Sure it's a large amount, but there are plenty of other fuels and even non-fuel based products that rely on oil.