Olivia Pope
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I ask this question because technology advanced within the past 70 years fairly quick if you ask me. But why didn't it advance centuries ago? And maybe if it did, technology will be 3 times advanced then it is now.
Why did technology take so long to advance?
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i think people had to get to a point where they could actually have the time to dedicate to something like technology. for a very long time in human history the vast majority of our time was spent doing things like growing food, hunting, dying young from an arrow to the knee, etc.
one of the major advancements that helped us leap forward was created by a man named Fritz Haber:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber
the science he used to make this breakthrough was based upon the discoveries of others before him and so on.
at this point technological advancement is going forward at an exponential rate and i don't think that we can absorb it as fast as it is created.
one of the major advancements that helped us leap forward was created by a man named Fritz Haber:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber
long story short he invented a process that allowed the world to grow a lot more food so less people needed to farm...more people focusing on other things like Tech.
the science he used to make this breakthrough was based upon the discoveries of others before him and so on.
at this point technological advancement is going forward at an exponential rate and i don't think that we can absorb it as fast as it is created.
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ΘГβĮŦ∆Ŀ ₣℮ŦЏگ;352262 said:
But this doesn't really answer my question though...
Humans didn't have the tools to advance before 1918 centuries ago is what you're saying?
i'm trying to say that there are certain advancements that are game changers and allow things to happen that were inconceivable before.
the example i gave you was one of them.
if everyone had a real hard time growing enough food to feed themselves and then BAM....one day you need a fraction of the number of people to grow much more food, that would change everything,
almost immediately a huge part of the worlds population don't have to worry about spending most of their time farming. they are doing things like going to school.
less than 1% of the American population farms...and they make so much food that we not only feed America but we also export around the world.
if you went back in time 100 years and told someone that you come from a place where fewer that 1 out of 100 people grow food and it's enough to feed everyone and have a shyt load left over to sell or even give away they would think you where insane and continue to plow their land.
this is the kind of magic moment that allows the kind of great advancements we are witnessing today.
WE'VE SEEN THAT OLDER CIVILIZATIONS DID HAVE SOME EARLY TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES BUT BACK THEN WHOLE CITIES AND shyt WOULD JUST GET WIPED OUT AFTER WARS OR BY DISEASE. WE LOST SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE FROM WARS AND DISEASE.
i agree.
i think what i'm trying to say is that major advancements are occurring more often is because there is more to build upon now. every major advancement allows for many others to be possible.
stone age was very limited.
iron age gave us cool, stronger tools.
agriculture allowed civilization to take root.
industrial revolution kicked down the door.
penicillin >>>> your life. i would be dead if antibiotics where not discovered.
i may not be presenting my answer in the best manner but i hope you get the idea.
It's exponential growth.. at first it begins slow, but gets faster and faster and faster and faster (because we have previous knowledge we just improve upon) now we have new tech out every 1-2 yrs.
Fetus is right...
Prior to the last, let's say, couple hundred years, people had to spend most of their time just trying to survive. Not to mention that people had shorter lifespans. Most people didn't have much free time to ponder how the world worked or study science.
After the industrial revolution we got to a point where many people didn't have to be farmers, and had way more free time to think about other shyt, so technology started advancing faster.
Prior to the last, let's say, couple hundred years, people had to spend most of their time just trying to survive. Not to mention that people had shorter lifespans. Most people didn't have much free time to ponder how the world worked or study science.
After the industrial revolution we got to a point where many people didn't have to be farmers, and had way more free time to think about other shyt, so technology started advancing faster.
OP's question is a valid one and opens the door to many different paths that humanity has taken.
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JoelB
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This....
and Like I always say.
As technology advances, we become smarter in some ways but fattier, lazier and overall dumber.
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