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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Globalization and technology, after WW2 many allied nations shared technologies and designs that had previously been state secrets one good example is radar, the UK showed America this technology after they agreed to help the allies in WW2, after the coldwar the world was more connected than it had ever been, countries were trading across oceans and with countries they had never been able to contact before. countries that had been isolated from different parts of the world were suddenly affected by global powers, China moving Into Africa, US installing military bases worldwide, Russia bolstering satellite states ect.. Thus it was much harder to hide technology, if US soldiers showed up in turkey with M16s while they were still using WW2 weapons suddenly turkey would want to get its hands on M16 types of tech. Another big factor is the internet, with the ability to send information almost anywhere in the world the internet has been invaluable in helping researchers across the world
One thing that keeps “undiscovered” tribes in near stone age type of societies is the lack of external presences, for example a small tribe on a remote island in the pacific, may never be able to forge steel, or use coal, simply because there is just none there, globalization allowed for materials that were only located in certain spots of the world to be spread across the world so more people could use them
And the last thing is innovation, many technological breakthroughs were discover out of trying to beat others, nuclear power came from the desire to weild a weapon to end wars, many advancements were made just trying to find things out before someone else did, or trying to prove something/one else wrong, a tribe that’s never known war would never need to find better ways to kill things, if they already have an effective way of killing things
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