We went from no human flight to landing on the moon in under 100 years. I’m personally overwhelmed at how fast technology is moving, it’s hard to keep up. However for 240,000+ years we just rolled around in the dirt hunting and gathering without even figuring out the wheel?
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I often wondered the same thing. Then I had a child. I can 100% say that pre modern times with houses and steady food supplies etc, keeping a child alive must have been absolutely brutal back then. Add in the fact that a lot of women and children died during and after birth, and that’s one piece of the puzzle
There have been several times in human history where we either got kicked in the proverbial nuts or knowledge took a huge step back. There’s theories and stories from ancient texts that claim there have been major cataclysms that reset the human super volcanoes, massive floods, etc- and we’re finding more evidence of this recently. Then you have instances where through our own savagery, stupidity and greed, we’ve prevented our own progress- burning of the library at Alexandria, the sacking of Rome, the council of nicea, the black plague, how we’re currently resisting advancements in technology because big corporations make too much money on oil and gas, etc.
In summation, we’ve had a decently long, sustained period of time where nothing catastrophic has happened, either by our hands or by natural forces, thus allowing us to continuously build upon the knowledge of our past.
PS- there’s also theories that our recent exponential technological growth is due to reverse engineered tech from “somebody else’s” recovered technology, but that depends on whether you believe that sort of thing.
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