>>21160866The innovation and emergence of cell phones and mobile computers would've put the peak in the 90's, emergence of NFC in the 2000's and AI in like 2022. You can't say that technology peaked because again it would mean we stopped innovating which we'll never do.
To write off technology as worthless innovations just for the sake of innovations is undermining all the things that had to be developed just for you to be able to post this and share your opinions. CISCO started selling routers for enterprise networks in the 90's which previously hadn't been done by anyone. They wrote the protocols for all networking we enjoy today. This revolutionized the world as a whole and paved the way for the modern internet. Regardless of how you feel about it this was a revolutionary innovation that is still being developed to this day.
I mean just look at the history behind NFC.
1983: Charles Walton was granted the first patent associated with the abbreviation "RFID".
1997: An early form of NFC was patented and used in Hasbro's Star Wars character toys.
2002: Philips and Sony agreed to establish a technical outline for NFC.
2003: NFC was approved as an ISO/IEC standard.
2004: Nokia, Philips, and Sony established the NFC Forum. Nokia also launched an NFC shell add-on for their phones.
2011: NFC technology was introduced into smartphones.
That shit is banking industry standard now. RFID revolutionized security.
The long and short of what I'm trying to get at is your bias makes you write off things you disagree with or feel a certain kind of way about which isn't fair when trying to determine where technology "peaked" at. Just because you feel like they're all boondoggles or have ruined society doesn't detract from the fact that we are still innovating very useful world changing technologies.
