Darkest Hour

the only thing that comes to mind when i hear " human progress " is:

why would humans lack technological abilities for so many years and then all of a sudden technology explodes in a 50 year period. I don't get it. It seems like it happened for a reason, the nuclear bomb scares the hell out of me.

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Guybrush

Although the dark ages were kind of stale, I think the pre-steam society was often a lot more advanced than many people are aware of. For example, they could send messages quite fast using semaphore towers and big trading ships could be built in a matter of days in Venice during the renesseance.

However, things did speed up at some point. It happened for several reasons. For example, there was a strong interest in describing the natural world which, although there had been scientists like Gallileo before, never before had such a unified focus and acceptance. Also the discovery of steam and the impact it had on society with businesses, appearance of factories and more market competition and so on (the industrial revolution). It gave us a big push and we've been going faster and faster since.

You should read up on the industrial revolution on wikipedia.

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Something Completely Different

dhayespw

Is there a correlation to the distances that seperated different cultures for centuries?

People used to always try to stay seperate, with the exception of some trade between tribes. Now we are all connected by internet, phone, tv, airplanes, trains, MASS TRANSIT!!! You can't just stay in your bubble anymore

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