I think the op needs to realise that under 100 years humans have done a lot. Maybe you think we're in a slow period right now but you gotta realise that technology and social advancements go faster than people can adapt. Human life has changed drasticaly in the last century compared to the last 30 000 years. The was barely one bilion people on earth a century ago and now we're at 7 bilion, people knew other countries through stories and books, now it's easy for almost anyone to travel a bit. Think that about 50 years ago a computer could barely fit in your appartment and had the power of a pocket calculator.
120 years ago people were riding horses and didn't know what planes were. No electricity for most, people used to die at the age of 60>. Not so long ago women were considered unable to think therefore not able to vote, black people were segregated and now America has a black president, In 1978 the year I was born I could tell someone that a black man would ruleAmerica and I think people would not only laugh at me but beat me too.
All you got to know is that in order to get things to advance where you want them other things has to advance first. Like building the LHC takes years. But it takes years to build only because of the technology we currently have, go back a century ago and it would take decades and go back like a thousand year ago and it would take you 3-4 generations to build the entire structure. Once the structure is built you need people to know how it works and understand the data. Such knowledge takes years in studying. It takes decades to understand what a photon was, then more years to realise we could use them.
I don't think you realise how fast humans have gone technology, socialy and culturaly in the past century... it's just incredible. Ask people that have over 90 years old, they'll tell you...
