You say that, but they're really not.Keep in mind that guns, cars, tv’s, light bulbs, refrigerators, phones, and computers have not experienced new inventions but simply are improvements over the original patent.
And we think we’re great.
We agree we have vastly improved on the original idea. They are still called cars, tv’s etc.You say that, but they're really not.
TV - a flat screen barely has any similarities with a CRT other than that they both display an image
Light bulb - LEDs are pretty different from a filament bulb other than producing light from electricity
Phone - again, a wireless phone is very different from an analog phone
Computer - how far are we going back? Mechanical computers that run off gears? Vacuum tube transistors? The space shuttle, which has less processing power than a smartphone?
If anything, I'd argue that the modern versions of these are probably not even recognizable to someone accustomed to the original invention. So yeah, we are pretty great.
To call today’s cell phones a telephone is a disgrace to the inventer of the telephone. Today’s cell phone is nothing more than a radio. Sends and receives a radio signal. ( Now figure out why that is, anyone can monitor or capture any radio signal going through their home or body, but it takes a court order to capture a signal going through a wire.) You do the math.We agree we have vastly improved on the original idea. They are still called cars, tv’s etc.
Perhaps insightful yes, but all components used had already been invented, glass, electricity, transistors etc."Vastly improved" is much different than "simply are improvements" from the first comment. But like I said, while they might have the same end result, the technologies are very different.
Also, language evolves. Just because they have the same name doesn't inherently mean anything. A computer originally was a person who performed math calculations. Is the modern computer based off that? Alternatively, is the modern touch screen tablet based off an ancient writing tablet other than being flat? The answer to both is no