[kees]

My life is improved so much due to technology. Remember only your computer and the internet in 1999.....

The same counts for almost every other product you're using.

Maybe financially there wasn't much progress, but the silent and steady motor of improving daily life is still running.

[habitue]

Yeah this is what I thought when reading this. He does, however, preface his statement that "nothing good happened" with "economically speaking", and he makes a good case from that perspective.