Comment by onlyrealcuzzo

Arguably the jump around the space age is a bigger jump than everything else between ~1900 and now - whenever you want to define that small period.

We may be in a similar step-jump period now, where over the next 10-15 years we'll see some pretty big advancements in robotics due to AI, and then all of the low hanging fruit will be picked until there some other MAJOR breakthrough