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]

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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First published on March 4th, 2009 at 12:40 pm (EST) and last modified on March 4th, 2009 at 12:41 pm (EST).