Cause no steam engines or copper wires or antibiotics. Hadn’t even invented metalworking afaik.
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Rubanski@lemm.ee 9 months agoBut why didn’t it start 20000 years ago
nyctre@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They should have just googled it
crawancon@lemm.ee 9 months ago
why hadn’t they invented bootstraps to pick themselves up by.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
You’re old, they should’ve asked ChatGPT
KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Humans just barely survived during most of our history.
Then a warming of the climate made agriculture possible, which lead to a surplus of food that could be used to feed people who were doing something other than gathering food.
Those people invented writing and that made real technological progress possible for the first time.someguy3@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Evolution.
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
It did, we were just in the boring part of the exponential curve where it’s basically flat
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
and we will currently be in the flat part compared to the next few thousand years (at least if humanity survives until then)