Damn this is really cool. I always thought stuff like this must go back way farther - it’s not like humans have gotten significantly smarter in the last 1000 years, we just don’t have many records going way back
I think it’s actually difficult for people to comprehend that we are no smarter than people from thousands of years ago. We just have all this externalized knowledge available to us. Along with our wealth of technology. So much technology.
I think there’s also a change in perspective for the average person. I was watching premodernist on YouTube and he mentioned that people didn’t used to think about technology and inventing/improving stuff all the time like we do - that there was a perception for a long time that life is what it is, and it had been that way for thousands of years and there was no reason to think it would be anything else.
Damn this is really cool. I always thought stuff like this must go back way farther - it’s not like humans have gotten significantly smarter in the last 1000 years, we just don’t have many records going way back
I think it’s actually difficult for people to comprehend that we are no smarter than people from thousands of years ago. We just have all this externalized knowledge available to us. Along with our wealth of technology. So much technology.
I think there’s also a change in perspective for the average person. I was watching premodernist on YouTube and he mentioned that people didn’t used to think about technology and inventing/improving stuff all the time like we do - that there was a perception for a long time that life is what it is, and it had been that way for thousands of years and there was no reason to think it would be anything else.