Comment by sgt101

>>Pocket computers and consumer electronics (which is not a discovery rather an optimisation)

Can you really describe a process like EUV lithography an optimisation? I mean it requires matter to be controlled and manipulated in a way that would have been regarded as pure science fiction 20 years ago. Also the material science that provided Gallium Nitride electronics in our communcation system is rather amazing. There are other things as well - I have an electric car with a battery that lets me travel for hundreds of kilometers, if I trusted it, it could take me there without me operating it (much). I know where I am in London and where I am going because of satellites in geosynchronous orbits and calculations that use relativity. Last year I got an mRNA vaccine, that's pretty new... and pretty pervasive. I've seen rockets that fly up into space and then turn around and come back down to land, and I spend my days talking face to face with people on the other side of the world. I've never met half of them, but they greet me as an old friend.

How is it that you can't see any of these wonders that have sprung into being in our life times?