Futurology

I feel like there needs to be some kind of criteria to make a complete list. Why not plastics? Why just the Internet and not telephony… or possibly the most general-purpose technology of the last century, radio transmission? What about timekeeping?

AND we have AI, the ultimate meta-technology… the real question is how many further general-purpose technologies it can unlock in turn.

I'm highly skeptical of claims like this, they seem to be more marketing hype than anything else. How is it "the ultimate"? Is it more important than smelting or electricity? We don't even have artificial intelligence, we have algorithms that take advantage of highly powerful computers to work faster than they did in the past.

The distinctions and categories being drawn here seem arbitrary. You could make this kind of list a thousand different ways.

No refrigeration no right to speak

I dont know what study it is or how they define general purpose technologies. But i do miss a few world changing discoveries in that list. Like modern medicine/vaccines and radio/telecommunications. Although that last one might fall under electricity? Though I feel like it should be it's own thing.

It kinda feels like a subjective arbitrary list

I wouldn't be surprised if this list turned out to be generated by AI.

It's terrible. 3 mast ships but no boats?

Steam engine turns up 3 times as steam engine, railways, and steam ship.

Mass production isn't even a technology, it's a process. Biotechnology is a field not a technology.