Jonathan Huebner

Physi­cist, Naval Air War­fare Cen­ter (Chi­na Lake, CA).

Study on tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tion, made by plot­ting the 7200 “key inno­va­tions” as list­ed in The History of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy (Houghton Mif­flin 2004) showed that devel­op­ment peaked more than a cen­tu­ry ago (1873) and is now rapid­ly declin­ing, enter­ing a “dark age”; data pub­lished in Tech­no­log­i­cal Fore­cast­ing and Social Change. [link] [chart] [review]

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Media coverage

” Enter­ing a dark age of inno­va­tion” by Robert Adler, New Sci­en­tist Jul 2 2005

“A Com­ing Dark Age for Inno­va­tion?”

“tol/life_and_style/article575370.ece”>Waiting for the lights to go out”

“Is tech­nol­o­gy’s dark age approach­ing?”

“tor.htm”>Science: Wan­na be an inventor? Don’t both­er”

“The End Of Inno­va­tion?”

“topics/singularity/critiques.html”>Is Tech­no­log­i­cal Progress Slow­ing down?”

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