Eli5: what causes different societies to advance technologically?

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Whenever a modern uncontacted tribe is found, it seems curiously consistent that they are barely even agricultural at best-much less even up to pace with most of the world’s society. What makes it so we never seem to discover unheard of industrial societies? They had as much time as anyone else to have come to the same conclusions. What causes one group to be splitting atoms while the other is still using bows and arrows?

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In general a connection to the wider world is what leads to advancement through spread of ideas. Uncontacted tribes by definition don’t have that connection so they live in isolated places content with basic human life, because they don’t know anything outside of it. Technology can still advance but extremely slowly due to their low population and general perceived lack of need for innovation

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