King Helü of Wu
Banned
I have always thought that this argument is fallacious. Many years ago, I created a spreadsheet containing many thousands of inventions, from can-openers to revolving doors, sorted by year. In the twentieth century, there were two massive dips in the rate of invention, corresponding to WWI and WWII. The fact that a relative handful of developments with military applications still happened in those years, does not change the fact that the overall rate of invention sharply dropped in those years. Not to mention that millions of potential inventors also died during those wars, slowing the future invention rates for decades after.
Thank you.
But where did you take the samples of this many thousand inventions?
Just randomly? or from a certain wiki list? or rather from your personal library?