I will watch the video, but there is something I have noticed for years.
The speed of commercial aviation has apparently remained stable since the 1960s at least.
I mean, in mechanical engineering terms ... we've been at a standstill since shortly after the Second World War.
And not just in aviation.
Where are the advances, much less the breakthroughs ?
Part of this halt of technological progress is certainly tied to the advances in electronics that occurred after the 1970s. Much of our best brainpower went to advance computing, microprocessors, and networks.
But still. Other than high tech gadgets to distract passengers, air travel is the same as it was decades ago. Ditto travel in cars and buses. Some train lines have been slowly upgraded to move at something like 150% the speed they did in the 1960s. But most mechanical engineering has been a bust over the last sixty years.
"Lost century", indeed.
Cheers
The speed of commercial aviation has apparently remained stable since the 1960s at least.
I mean, in mechanical engineering terms ... we've been at a standstill since shortly after the Second World War.
And not just in aviation.
Where are the advances, much less the breakthroughs ?
Part of this halt of technological progress is certainly tied to the advances in electronics that occurred after the 1970s. Much of our best brainpower went to advance computing, microprocessors, and networks.
But still. Other than high tech gadgets to distract passengers, air travel is the same as it was decades ago. Ditto travel in cars and buses. Some train lines have been slowly upgraded to move at something like 150% the speed they did in the 1960s. But most mechanical engineering has been a bust over the last sixty years.
"Lost century", indeed.
Cheers
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