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Originally Posted by strelnik
Organically-based machines, cybernetic organisms, faster-than-light travel,
movement of consciousness outside the body, time travel, extending life span to 400 years, education by direct mental download--
Not to mention many others.
It started with steam power but won't end there.
Remember, people knew about electricity in ancient times, they just didn't put it together with other discoveries, so it was a novelty.
The Leyden jar was a type of crude battery made before anything was invented that needed it as a power source.
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Parts of your first sentences where invented when LSD hit the market.
Actually it is felt the rate of invention will increase but not in a mechanical way. I read that more is expected in the next fifty years than the past 100 years.
The past 100 years probably resulted in more inventions that mans whole prior time on earth. Mind shattering inventions are still possible as man does not understand everything. At the same time the known knowledge base already is pretty signifigant.