If anyone looks at the changes in the 18th, 19th and 20th century there is no doubt that technology complete utterly changed the world beyond all recognition. Britain went from a country where there were barely decent roads for a cart to a country where a plane could fly from one end to the other.

So, what has happened since the 1950s? They introduced motorways. The average speed of travel in Wales has changed from 26mph (according to one of my ancestors) to … 20mph speed limits. So an order of magnitude change (not).

Basically, whilst a few things still change, and more and more people make more and more money putting up traffic lights to stop people being sensible and stopping the traffic flowing, technology has hardly changed in the last 70 years. The only significant change has been in computer and entertainment. Yet, the change is for far more dross, rather than any actual improvement. Yes, films now show 100s of people’s brains exploding using advanced CGI … but it hasn’t improved the films.

So, what about computers? The basic application, the wordprocessor, invented in the 1980s has hardly changed. Indeed, in many ways the clones of Micr$oft are far worse than what used to be available. Otherwise, there has been no discernible change for the last 20 years. TOTAL STAGNATION.

The same with the internet. Far from getting better, HTML just gets worse. HTTPS has blocked many sites  & Google’s monopoly has destroyed all the altruistic, free thinking sites that used in exist. Things have gone backward. We’ve already reached and gone through peak intelligence, as far as the internet is concerned. It’s downhill from here on.

And, what is the causes?

1. US aggressive policies destroying any major/innovative non-US internet sites
2. US stupidity … because most US sites are as dumb as fuck
3. Monopolisation (by the US)
4. End of freedom of speech (because that is the way the US destroys other countries. It funds organisations that hate free speech in other countries. And that is resulting in the end of free speech throughout the globe.)
5. The monopolisation of “Knowledge” by corrupt interests in academia and the ruthless attacks on scepticism … by those who now control academia who stamp on anyone who tries to challenge their own (totally outdated and corrupt) assertions.

My bet is that the new internet being created by Brics will within a few decades, be seen as the place where speech is free. And, those countries who oppose it, will find that without freespeech, they are the ones being left behind as others start to innovate again.

Because freespeech is essential to challenge the status quo, and if a society is not permitted to challenge the status quo (especially a corrupt one) then it stagnates.

A New Dark Age

Basically, between the US (or Israel that controls the US government) and US academics (who are the prime cause of the rot in academia), the world is entering a new dark age, where instead of the catholic church repressing all dissent, the US will take that role on the internet. Like the medieval catholic church, the US cannot tolerate dissent from its “authority” over all matters … and thus the US would have a world where no one is allowed to do anything without the explicit permission of the US. The result … utter stagnation and even back peddling. The only places that will innovate, will be those free from the dead hand of the US. So, Russia, China, …. Brics and any who join them. And, they will then take over from the US. Not in a few centuries, but in decades.