You know, I am very critical when acknowledging invention. I see a lot of them just as a simple enhancement of already existing technology.

The Internet might be the best example. It is no technological invention. You had computers before and you could let computers communicate with each other before, the internet is only a scaling of that method and thus no new technology.

Apart from software and hardware for PCs and their applications we had barely any inventions since the 50s. I think the rockets for space travel were still based on the German V2 Rockets, at least the russian and post cold war ones.

It is very arguable if the American World Leadership really brought us as much technology as it claims.

AI is a buzzword as well. If you are talking about machine learning then this can actually be quite a simple process and really far away from what the human mind does. You remember the racist AI that had to get banned after 1 day?