Comment by Cthulhu_

I'm inclined to agree, but then, it may be impossible to predict sudden breakthroughs. A lot of where we are today is from the early 1900s, I'd argue that most developments since then have been iterative and building on top of the things discovered and proven then.

And in our industry, a lot of big steps were done in the 60's and 70's with the semiconductor, computers, and everything that came with it.