Today however it seems like we don't develop new things. We just keep improving the old things.
Cell phones (to say that cell phones are just an improvement on the telephone is like saying the telephone wasn't new, but was just an improvement on the telegraph), MP3 players, TIVO, Nano particles, E-ink,
Pain rays, DVD, fuel cells, highbrid engines, OLED, LCD, Plasma displays, cloning, viagra, propecia, CCD (digital camera sensor), flash memory, super bright LEDs, artificial limbs that are interfaced to and manipulated by the human brain, Laser eye surgury, WORLD WIDE WEB!!!, search engines, blog, Mars Rover, RFID, Hepititis A & B vaccines (HIV is around the corner), sequenced the human genome, Roomba, Xbox Media Center.
In short....you are crazy. I'm just a regular guy. I'm no chemist or physicist. If I were I could give you a hundred more amazing examples.