By your argument, space travel was invented by Jules Verne, computers were invented in the 1800s by Charles Babbage, and time travel has already been invented by HG Wells. In other words, there hasn’t been a technological advance in a century.
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What? That's not my argument at all. I'm not stating that since writers literally "thought" up of a concept that appealed and sold to a mass audience, that they are the forefathers. I'm simply saying that the technology you mentioned has been around and has been built on over the years.
The science underlying those technologies was invented decades ago: so was physics and chemistry. But technological innovation isn’t about basic science: it’s about combining scientific knowledge from different fields into products of utility. Consider the iPhone.
The iPhone, which was based on earlier cell phones, was Jobs's masterpiece. Jobs was a master at combining existing parts and technologies. The technology was already available; he simply put it all together. He took a cell phone, merged it with an iPad, and added a touchscreen.
Let's not go down the path where people start thinking that science is not important. Writers and poets are not scientists because they wrote books and science fiction adventures. 🥴
The argument is “technological innovation has not advanced in three decades”. Please introduce me to the person on earth who thinks that the iPhone is not a “technological innovation”.
Nobody is disregarding science. But let’s not confuse scientific breakthroughs with technological breakthroughs.
As I stated...The iPhone, which was based on earlier cell phones, was Jobs's masterpiece. Jobs was a master at combining existing parts and technologies. The technology was already available; he simply put it all together. He took a cell phone, merged it with an iPad, and added a touchscreen.
Even on the face of it that's an obvious technological innovation, you're acting like the guy in the joke about abstract art "I could have done that" yeah but you didn't, did you
I never said it wasn't. I said Jobs's legacy was the iPhone and his masterpiece. I could never have done it. I never said I could have. 🤓 All I said is that it took a visionary to put the existing pieces together. Those pieces were still there before the iPhone came around, just in different ways.
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Nobody is disregarding science. But let’s not confuse scientific breakthroughs with technological breakthroughs.