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Not sure this qualifies as a breakthrough and I'm not sure what the silicomancers did to accomplish this, but I have a 1tb flash drive the size of my index finger with a chunk of my movies and my entire audio library in high bitrate mp3 and a good subset of my flacs
Slippi/rollback netcode for melee is an incredible technological achievement (which nintendo could not engineer in more "sophisticated" implementations of smash that had access to entire teams of developers) that allows me to continue to play melee even though due to covid I can't really participate in that community in person the way I could prior to 2020
The only other breakthroughs I think I encounter these days are subtle. My laptop isn't much faster or more powerful than the one I had in 2015, but the battery lasts 3x as long doing the same tasks. My ereader has a backlight and only needs to be charged once every 2 weeks.
That said, the grifts are pervasive and it definitely feels like we're not making the same kinds of qualitative leaps in technological capability that we were even 20 years ago.