Great Plateau

The Great Plateau, otherwise known as the Slump or Stagnation, is a concept used in human history and sociology circles to refer to the current stagnation that technological innovation has experienced over the past three hundred years following the end of the Coalition of Congressional Republic's Second Renaissance. Although certain breakthroughs in medical nanotechnology and astrobiology have been achieved, it has been three centuries since any major innovations have been made in computing, astroengineering, or other scientific disciplines.
Many reasons have been attributed to the onset of the Great Plateau, with the most notable being the economic fallout and degradation of the Coalition stifling further advancements following the end of the Second Renaissance. Others have also pointed to the monolithic amounts of legislation that were put into effect following the Machine War, which severely limited developments on artificial intelligence as a means to protect the human species. Physical reasons still exist, such as the inability for scientists to successfully create scalable and efficient quantum computers. Conspiracy theorists claim that the Great Plateau is a deliberately manufactured phenomenon by the megacorporations of the Coalition as a means to keep a permanent and complacent consumer base.
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