Natural language processing, image and speech recognition, vastly more powerful media creation tools, much much more complicated games, increasingly useful recommendation systems, data processing on previously unimaginable scales.
The list goes on and on and on. I can't imagine how anyone could seriously argue that we're not leagues ahead of where we were in the 70s.
Is a modern game really more engrossing than Elite, that I still play 25 years later? No, modern computing power is squandered on bells and whistles. The industry has stagnated since the 80s.
The list goes on and on and on. I can't imagine how anyone could seriously argue that we're not leagues ahead of where we were in the 70s.