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This is not about "technology itself."
Just a guy reminiscing (with many words) about his long-gone youth, and probably facing a midlife crisis soon.
That's not what I got from the article, though I might be from a similar age bracket as the author.
It does seem that we have hit diminishing returns when it comes to a lot of technologies. For example there really hasn't been a significant change in the experience or utility of my phone in the last 10 years or so.
Compare that from phones that came out from 2005 to 2015 and you'll kinda get what they are saying. We went from Nokia bricks, razors, BlackBerry, and then iphones all within a couple years.
When I was younger the general assumption was that we would be continuing to progress at the same rapid pace as we did when transitioning from analog to digital. Instead, we get more memory and processing but there's not much difference in experience because it gets neutralized by bigger and clunkier apps that don't care about optimization.
But that goes for each technology in it's own time. Take the wheel: we have it since like foroever. It does not evolve anymore, it's a solved problem. Take the combustion engine, and we have it for 120 years or so. Take batteries. We have them for 160 years, and we thought they were a solved problem, but currently they make new jumps, and still ongoing, while smartphones are nearly solved. It is utter bullshit to say "technology in general" has started in this or that year and will slow down in XY.
Therefore I say it's his personal feelings that are having this certain cycle.
Wheels today are an absolutely MASSIVE improvement on wheels from even a few hundred years ago, never mind the original wheel. They well continue to improve too.