The cotton gin made it easy for slaves to separate seeds out of the cotton. However, it it increased slave usage all over. It actually increased the use of slavery. The cotton gin just made one part of a slaves job quicker and easier.
France and Britain disagreed over land claims and the fur trade in North America.
Answer: Yes
Explanation: If one looks at where humanity is today, and go back only 20 years ago, we are accomplishing things people had thought to be impossible.
We’ve gone from flip phones, to smart phones with more processing power than some computers. From a government monopoly of space flight, to private companies sending astronauts to the ISS and then landing the rocket used back on Earth. One can purchase almost anything online and have it delivered right to their door, (in some places by a drone). We have self driving cars and wrist watches that function as phones and mini computers.
Technology today is something out of a James Bond film.
Humanity has achieved more in the past 50 years, than the past 1000 years combined. And there is no sign of progress slowing down. Within 100 years, there is a more than likely chance we will have an outpost on the Moon and a colony on Mars.
Every day has the chance to bring with it some new form of technological wonder, which is why we are most certainly in an age of technology.
