why didn’t humanity advance technologically for thousands of years when it comes to things like electricity and other electrical power devices like WIFI, but now humanity is advancing rather rapidly?
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It’s the advancement of information sharing. If you wanted to invent an electric toothbrush 10,000 years ago, first you had to discover electricity, then you had to invent the electric motor, then you had to invent a battery… not to mention the toothbrush. If you wanted to invent something similar today, you could build on what others have done and just taken the next step.
The biggest steps in human history start with the invention of written language. Before that, no human accomplishment could take more than one lifetime, because you couldn’t (accurately) pass down knowledge to the next generation.
The next big step was the invention of the printing press. This allowed written language to be available to the masses, and not just an elite few.
We are currently living in the next big leap in information sharing, and I’m hoping that historians similarly look back at this age as one of equal magnitude to the invention of the printing press and written language.
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