Growth of technology? Faster? or the same it has been 50 years ago?
Technology is interesting.
Truly unique break throughs are coming faster, but not predictably. For example, it was in the 1950s that DNA was first described, and also that the Transistor was invented. All of our technology today is based on the transistor. Much of our medical knowledge is because of our understanding of DNA. And that is about to advance dramatically, since we have the ability to analyze, and even manipulate DNA. It's crude at the moment, but I expect it to improve in the space of years, not decades.
IF you are young and healthy today, and you are careful to take good care of your body, there's a more than even chance you will be able to live more than 100 years, and be relatively healthy all that time.
Computers are getting faster at a relatively predictable pace. That's likely to continue. However, that's incremental change, as opposed to the invention of the transistor, and the integrated circuit, and the understanding of the structure of DNA. Things like that are random, and cannot be predicted.
Growth of technology? Faster? or the same it has been 50 years ago?
Technology is still advancing. This is especially true in medicine. There's a lot of research in genetics and drugs and diseases and so on going on right now.