Jonathan Huebner

Jonathan Huebner is a physicist working at the Pentagon's Naval Air Warfare Center, in China Lake, California. He argues on the basis of both U.S. patents and world technological breakthroughs, per capita, that the rate of human technological innovation peaked in 1873 and has been slowing ever since. According to his projections we are heading towards a "new Dark Age" of very low innovation rates by sometime around 2024. The claim has been met with criticism by John Smart, who stated that research by Ray Kurzweil showed a "clear trend of acceleration, not deceleration" when it came to innovations.