Technology is advancing a lot and sure we have advanced from our primitive ways but is innovation and research slowing down? I'm mostly comparing our generation with the generation that had Albert Einstein at his prime, Marie Curie, Neils Bohr, and all the other scientists that were present at the Solvay Conference.
My theory is that every since we started worrying more about the individual with the iPhone, Facebook, pop culture, new-generation rap and hip-hop music and TV shows as well as the media, that our interest for scientific innovation and research has declined. Other factors could also include the wars that are happening around the world and political. Now I'm not saying that technology isn't advancing. It is. It's just not advancing in the direction that the early 19th and 20th century scientists were intending. What's your take on it?