All of those were enabled by decreasing cost and miniaturization of hardware, high speed ubiquitous Internet and later the mobile phone.

But since then the Apple Watch is an innovation both technologically and from a business standpoint, In 2010, I wouldn’t have imagined you could have a processor faster than the original iPhone, with Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, cellular, satellite communication, 32 GB of storage in something that size with that battery life.

While I think the newly announced Meta glasses are ugly and don’t provide enough value for the money, it was risky and not just another social media platform to provide ads.

Gen AI is some real sci fi shit that I wouldn’t have thoight it would be as far as it is in 2020.

Self driving cars are a real thing on the road right now. Even Uber itself is innovative and has made travel to different cities much better than dealing with taxi services. As much as I dislike Musk as a person, you can’t deny SpaceX and Starlink are game changers. All of the major tech companies are spending a lot of money on better custom processors and TSMC is doing some wild stuff on the manufacturing side.

The medical industry is also doing some life changing things.

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godelski 15 hours ago | parent [-]

I disagree with the why, but sure, let's go with that since it's not really important.

Why could we make those great leaps then and not now? What changed?

	▲	JustExAWS 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How could you disagree with cheaper, smaller, faster, more battery efficient hardware led to WiFi, Bluetooth, modern smart phones etc? But why nothing as ground breaking - physics. At a certain point you come up with speed of light limitations and other sub atomic interferences that are way out of pay grade when it comes to producing smaller processors. The industry keeps coming up with new techniques as far as wireless communications. But eventually again you come against physics, certain spectrum is worse for communications and Shannon-Hartley theorem. With cameras, you can only do so much in a phone form factor. You can also only do so much with current battery technology, heat dissipation vs power etc. And a lot of the technology is “good enough”. There is only so much video and audio fidelity that you need to reach the limits of human perception. What exactly break through technology are you looking for?