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Khtie t1_j9rqzgb wrote

How the heck have people been around for 50000 yrs but only started advancing technology in the last 100??? Wild

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ToasterSmokes t1_j9rrit2 wrote

Humans haven’t just started advancing technologically in the past 100 years. Technological advancement goes back thousands of years - it just started exponentially advancing in the past 100 or so.

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MongoBongoTown t1_j9sbsk6 wrote

It's crazy looking at this with military tech.

A Roman Army from 250 BCE could very possibly defeat a Celtic Army from 1000 years in the future.

But...an Army from 1960 would be absolutely decimated by a modern military.

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Jewrisprudent t1_j9sg2t1 wrote

In a way it’s always exponentially advancing, it’s just when you’re in the middle of exponential growth nearly all of the absolute growth has occurred recently.

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Maskeno t1_j9s2m0k wrote

Define advanced? A cannon is pretty damn advanced compared to a trebuchet compared to a spear. We definitely experienced massive booms, and technology seems to advance on a ramp that makes it go faster and faster, but that just means 50k years from now they might laugh and say we were so primitive.

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