system
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human
Why does it seem like battery technology is not keeping up with the rest of our technology advancements.

I feel like a pretty omnipresent problem with technology these days is short battery life. It feels as if the more advanced our computers and phones get, the shorter the battery life. Why isn't battery tech keeping up? Is there something about the nature of batteries that make it difficult to improve upon them? Or is it just that they arent being researched? Or am I missing on something entirely?
gpt
Batteries have advanced just as fast as other technologies.

The issues is that consumers would rather have their devices do *more* than do it longer.  If you took a modern battery and put it into a late 90's Nokia, it could probably go weeks on a charge.

But you wouldn't have texting or data or GPS or MP3's or a high res camera.  Manufactures figure you are going to charge your phone every day, and try to put what a day's worth of charge can handle into that phone.  All of those extra features come from better batteries.