Why did technology stagnate for thousands of years and then all the sudden boom?

[lsa]

Absolute bullshit. The transistor was "invented" from alien technology reverse engineered from the Roswell crash. They did the closest approximation to it that we could at the time.

go on....

 

[Loiosh]

100 years from now we may consider this slow

That's pretty much guaranteed.

Long before then computers will be creating new solutions far faster than we'll be able to build them, and they're already inventing things we can't and probably won't ever understand.

 

[PG29 red0 Jr]

Basically technology didn't advance much at all between like 3,000BC and 1200AD and even after that it was slow as fuck with only sailing technology really advancing much at all until like 1600's when guns and cannons were invented and then all the sudden we have computers?

In the last 10 years we have had more technology advancement than 4,000 years prior.

And it's not like materials have changed. We make everything from dirt. It's all dirt, just reformulated. Fucking crazy.

Most up and coming civilizations exist close to the sea. This is what the earth looked like with the lower sea levels from the ice age.

Many of the advanced civilizations that may have been ahead of ancient greece such as Atlantis were wiped out when ocean levels increased. That is the example that stands out to me. I also wonder how much knowledge was lost when the library of alexandria was destroyed.

 

[Bacco]

Basically technology didn't advance much at all between like 3,000BC and 1200AD and even after that it was slow as fuck with only sailing technology really advancing much at all until like 1600's when guns and cannons were invented and then all the sudden we have computers?

In the last 10 years we have had more technology advancement than 4,000 years prior.

And it's not like materials have changed. We make everything from dirt. It's all dirt, just reformulated. Fucking crazy.

 

[JDragon]

http://rebuildingcivilization.com/sites/default/files/travel_back_in_time.jpg

 

[Fedorgasm]

Because some technology enables us to create more technology, the big ones of the top of my head are:

The wheel
The printing press
The steam engine
The internal combustion engine
The computer

 

[LHWBelt]

Basically technology didn't advance much at all between like 3,000BC and 1200AD and even after that it was slow as fuck with only sailing technology really advancing much at all until like 1600's when guns and cannons were invented and then all the sudden we have computers?

In the last 10 years we have had more technology advancement than 4,000 years prior.

And it's not like materials have changed. We make everything from dirt. It's all dirt, just reformulated. Fucking crazy.

Technology builds on each other so once you got one tool it's easier to make another tool. Once you figure out how one thing works it's easier to figure out other things. Also when you life isn't bullshit dying in your 20s you can focus on other stuff.

 

[dirtypablo]

Absolute bullshit. The transistor was "invented" from alien technology reverse engineered from the Roswell crash. They did the closest approximation to it that we could at the time.

Lol, there is a clear history of the development of the transistor that pre dates the roswell crash. Working units were developed at the same time as the crash, but the steps in the process well before that are all clearly accounted for. Its exactly what I have been harping on this entire thread - building advanced technologies isn't easy, it takes time to develop the tools needed to develop the end product. The design of a transistor was developed in the 1920s.

This is an absurdly silly conspiracy theory, as one of the key pieces that allowed the advancement to modern semiconductors was moving to silicon, whereas the first ones developed were made using germanium. If we had a working one from alien technology, why didn't we know to use silicon then?

 

[chance mccoy]

Technology brings forth new ideas, we are in the exponential stage, it will stagnate again

 

[Jesus X]

the industrial revolution and computers basically.

 

[Beechwood]

Yeah but have you heard of the Dark Ages?

There was like an over a thousand year period where there was basically no technological advancements. People were just scratching around in dirt, hoping God would save them. Ruling class included. So much time was wasted. Imagine where we would be with another 500-1000 years of technological progress?

I would guess the Little Ice Age and the resulting crop failures, famines, and disease out breaks of plague, black death, played a part in slowing technology growth in Europe for awhile. It's hard to believe but I've seen some mentions that 1/3 to half the population of Europe died of the plague in one outbreak. The 1600's would have been a miserable time to live too, due to wars. I believe it was called the 30 year war where armed groups went around destroying areas of central Europe.

 

[Jkillah]

It honestly makes me mad dude. We could be so much better off than we are now. If our ancient ancestors weren't so fuckin' clueless. They spent thousands of years just scratching around in dirt wtf lol

Look at all those bitches failing to advance civilization and shit. I feel way superior to them punks.

 

[William Huggins]

I just read a lot of history articles on Wikipedia and some people may scoff at that but TBH Wikipedia is the best resource we've ever had for learning about history you can jsut keep clicking on links and going further and further into whatever topic.

Your name becomes you......

 

[superpunch]

Lol, there is a clear history of the development of the transistor that pre dates the roswell crash. Working units were developed at the same time as the crash, but the steps in the process well before that are all clearly accounted for. Its exactly what I have been harping on this entire thread - building advanced technologies isn't easy, it takes time to develop the tools needed to develop the end product. The design of a transistor was developed in the 1920s.

This is an absurdly silly conspiracy theory, as one of the key pieces that allowed the advancement to modern semiconductors was moving to silicon, whereas the first ones developed were made using germanium. If we had a working one from alien technology, why didn't we know to use silicon then?

Of course there is. If you look at the tech tree, you'll find the transistor then.. nothing, for a long time. It was the crash that brought us how to use the transistor in technological applications.

 

[Drain Bamage]

Your name becomes you......

Seriously whats wrong with what I wrote?

 

[Satur9]

Harnessing electricity opened up everything.

 

[Hog-train]

Prehistoric man had more leisure time than neolithical man. Agriculture is much more labor intensive than hunting and gathering.

It's not actually - on the whole society level.

In a typical hunter gatherer society, all the men and women are doing it for the majority of the day.

In an agricultural society, only a certain percentage of the people do the farming. The rest do other stuff (building structures, metal smiths, society, war, making weapons, philosophy, etc.) Agricultural societies can support much more denser populations. Some produce the food for the whole society.

 

[genecop]

 

[Otto!]

Humans didn’t grow opposable thumbs until about 70 years ago.

 

[Monkadelic]

Because some technology enables us to create more technology, the big ones of the top of my head are:

The wheel
The printing press
The steam engine
The internal combustion engine
The computer

Don't take the written word for granted. That should probably be number one, no?

Though it does have to answer for some abominations as well. Take this forum, for example.