[markholmes]

Does it? We visited the moon and created the internet in the span of one generation. We are arguably in the most innovative scientific period in our history.

[fortran77]

Probably the discovery of solid state devices and the invention of the digital computer is more important than the "Internet"

[dkersten]

We will be remembered for our most important achievement: bringing high speed access to cat pictures to the masses.

[HarryHirsch]

We are selling ads and moving money from one desk onto another instead of addressing antibiotic resistance and climate change.

[derp_dee_derp]

You lack serious historical context.

We went fromom electricity to flight to nuclear to space flight to the internet in less than 150 years.

Its been less than 100 years since antibiotics were invented, so, sorry we aren't addressing antibiotic resistance at a fast enough pace for you.

Hope you don't mind all those vaccines that are keeping you healthy and providing here immunity: they've only been around for about 130 years.

It's the most innovative time in human history, despite your negativity.

[Gatsky]

Yes, I wasn’t trying to be disparaging.

Interesting though you cite mainly engineering achievements, I had a similar feeling that we are in a phase of engineering/materials advancements, particularly sub-microscale in the post-WW2 period. But having said that, technological advances of this kind tend to end up as historical footnotes, no matter how amazing they seem at the time.

I think vaccines and antibiotics are probably our era’s truly great technological advance that kids will still learn about post 26th century. But quantum mechanics and relativity are really our Pythagoras’ theorem equivalents, and will stay in textbooks for a very, very long time.