How has technology advanced so quickly within the past 100 years than it has in any other point in history?

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Like when you read up on history..hundreds of years would pass without that much advancement but now in the last 100-150 years things changed so much.

Why?

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Technology is an exponentially growing field. The reason being the ability to build off of other ideas and concepts. Edison used 100 minds to create the lightbulb and the direct current standard. Tesla took these technologies, combined them with Henry fords assembly line, cadillacs system of interchangeable parts, and Stanley Whittingham’s lithium ion battery to create a fully modern electric vehicle.

A lot of newer inventions owe a lot of their success to the invention of the computer. Not only for the physical technology, but also for the ability to share information worldwide instantly(compared to the older ways of mail oreven telegraph.

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