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by cnocito 3269 days ago
Since you mention your age, there is a good chance you are just having a quarter life crisis (becoming more cynical, great South Park episode about it!)
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I've thought about that, and it is certainly true that I now know of most technologies and therefore cannot learn something new each week. However, the stream of technologies which realy did arive and prove to be world shaking in the past was real. There's no way cynicism is playing a role here. I saw (in no particular order)

1. consumer internet 2. WIFI 3. the first laptop with more than an hours charge capacity 4. the first tablet/smartphones 5. the incredible increases in bandwidth 6. the invention of mobile internet 7. the invention of google maps 8. the invention of code completion and inteligent IDEs. 9. the first interactive account based web services (web 2.0) 10. the laser mouse 12. working touch interfaces 13. the consumer digital camera 14. voice streaming 15. video streaming 16. hardware virtualization 17. the consumer 3D printer 18. the consumer CNC kit 19. bluetooth 20. the quadrocopter 21. wacom stylus interface over a glass screen 22. USB ports (might not seem like much now, but wow did that change things!) 23. CD roms 24. the push notification 25. distributed version control 26. automated software updates 27. consumer LCD monitors

That's all I can think of for now, but I'm sure there are more...

Almost all of those things were invented since I was 10ish, so there should be >1 really world shaking real, buy it on the shelf today, type techs per year.

The only such consumer technology that has come to my attention in the past 3 years is the electric bicycle, and that has yet to shake the world.

What recent real, actually existing technology has impacted reality to the extend that the ones that I listed have? Siri?

I forgot about cryptocurencies!
And eink/the ebook reader
There we go. :)