No way, man. You've started with the conclusion and now you're satisfying yourself. That's fine but it's not even close to the right conclusion.

Gives me chills, all the remarkable breakthroughs. Crispr is serious stuff. Mapping the human genome. A permanent human space settlement. You can be as cynical as you want but that's more a personal failing than humanity failing.

Edit: And hahaha, I just checked the news and guess who won the Nobel for Chemistry? "Better batteries" as you so flippantly put it.

A lot of the dismissal is just something like "arrivalism". Like, the atom was harnessed in 1950, so it gets that date, never mind that reasonably safe designs took another 30 or 40 years. Computers existed, so never mind the massive cost decreases and capability increases that made them available and useful to many more people. Treat the arrival dates as the period society takes to integrate the technology and we are still in the transistors window.

(I think this is a reasonable point to make in the context where I started off talking about 50,000 years)

>Gives me chills, all the remarkable breakthroughs

I certainly got a laff from this line. So many remarkable things ... so many wonders ... which boil down to lithography and networks. I wonder what you would say if you didn't have your nerd dildo. "We have flat screen TV now! Totally as important as nuclear weapons!"

>I just checked the news and guess who won the Nobel for Chemistry? "Better batteries" as you so flippantly put it.

Yep; emphasizing my point at how out of gas our degenerate era of both scientific and technological development is. Let's compare to the Nobel for the Haber–Bosch process, without which, there'd be about 5 billion fewer living people.