Feels stagnant because even technology has gotten stale. There are a lot of grifters peddling the same crap but with a fancy new title. It used to be called ponzi scheme, but its now called fin-tech and crypto. Our phones are just a faster, larger battery having, more memory holding clones of previous phones. All the cool technologies are always 20+ years away, while we only get iterative improvements in current technology so we can extract more profit out of the same tired device. We were supposed to have VR, but that's still in infancy, and AR is a laggy mess with bulky headgear and massive privacy violations. I think that our technological future of plenty ran aground against reality when we realized that the zuckercucks and gates of the world would be the ones running the cyber-dystopia.
Software has gotten more complex while at the same time trying to deliver all features all the time causing an increasing consumption of computing resources. This is why your phones are always needing to be upgraded. All the fancy new features are always kept in memory used or not. I hope we will one day see the shattering of software into components and software makes use of those larger components. Like the Linux of yore, where each utility does one thing and one thing only.
Culturally we have stagnated into a weird bottomless hole of the same as the last 30 years because fixing our purposefully rotten culture is beyond the grasp or means of most people. Not to mention our current news cycle keeps everyone distracted on the outrage treadmill. Instead of a culture that values the higher functions of humanity, knowledge, reason, justice, kindness, love, and biblical wisdom. We have become a secular and degenerate culture of hedonism. A culture of hatred, lust, suspicion, mistrust, and anti-reason. It has become an animalistic culture. Soon they'll be feeding bugs to the animalistic masses.
Our world hasn't really changed in a meaningful way for a long time. Its all just iterative and derivative. But even with all the problems of today, do you really want to jump into the future without knowing what lays ahead? The devil you know vs the devil you don't know. How do you know the future we are all waiting for will be beneficial? You can't and I don't trust the pseudo-elite. Elite in what? Fiat currency? Fiat currency has a net value of zero. Bunch of talentless hacks and grifters. Seeing their promised utopia crash and burn gives me joy and hope.