Why such a change?

[Dirty Penguin]

aliens? now that makes sense.

Communication from one group of nomadic people to another could be a factor. An increase in population and the sharing of ideas is most likely the reason.



If there are aliens out there I think it's plausible they interacted with man and help man advance...Of course I have no evidence and it's just pure speculation on my part.....

 

[zenzero]

Friend sniper,

Why such a change? does anyone care to attempt to explain WHY man has technologically advanced so much faster in the last few decades as opposed to his many thousands of years of existence?

Well imagine you are playing billiards where there are no pockets and the ball is constantly in motion as there is no friction; what happens.
First you hit a ball which sets in motion to hit another ball and this goes on first slowly and then the speed gathers momentum and finally the motion becomes faster.
Similarly is life which has gathered momentum!

Love & rgds

 

[sniper762]

wrong zen, motion cannot increase perpetually. must have an accelerant.

 

[fallingblood]

Now you are just grasping at straws.

And the shortest straw wins. Good thing I brought a scissors.

 

[zenzero]

Friend sniper,

Am not point at acceleration.
Accelerant was only the initial push of the first ball there after as one ball hits another and the next hits another this sets all the balls in motion and this hitting each other itself is the accelerant if you wish to take it so.
It is just as an example for visualization!

Love & rgds

 

[Herr Heinrich]

does anyone care to attempt to explain WHY man has technologically advanced so much faster in the last few decades as opposed to his many thousands of years of existence?

My best guess would be aliens. They are infiltrating our companies and advancing our technology so we become more and more dependent on it. This makes it easier for them to control us.

 

[sniper762]

you speak of perpetual motion. initially there was an accelerant to begin the motion which can continue at its beginning speed, but it can NEVER increase in speed without an outside reinsertion of an accelerant.

 

[Herr Heinrich]

you speak of perpetual motion. initially there was an accelerant to begin the motion which can continue at its beginning speed, but it can NEVER increase in speed without an outside reinsertion of an accelerant.

No I was definitely talking about aliens controlling our brainses. You totally took that in a weird direction.

 

[sniper762]

herr, it cant be easier to control us by making us smarter. contrarily, oppressing advanced knowledge eases control

 

[McBell]

No I was definitely talking about aliens controlling our brainses. You totally took that in a weird direction.

Psssssst...
Mr. Sniper was replying to Mr Zen.

 

[Herr Heinrich]

herr, it cant be easier to control us by making us smarter. contrarily, oppressing advanced knowledge eases control

It all depends on what you consider smarter. Book smarts? Practical knowledge? If we are dependent on our technology for food, water, communication, and the like it would be very easy to control us. How many people do you know that can grow their own food?

 

[sniper762]

control doesnt require dependance. look what we did to the native americans,

look what north korea does to its society.

look how the middle easterners are controlled

look how the flds are controlled

oppression = control

 

[Herr Heinrich]

control doesnt require dependance. look what we did to the native americans,

look what north korea does to its society.

look how the middle easterners are controlled

look how the flds are controlled

oppression = control

Yes they would be oppressing our natural ability to keep ourselves alive. So far your argument is really not holding water, sir.

 

[sniper762]

that might be because your bucket has a hole in it.

 

[TJ73]

Because every advancement exponentially adds to the next generation of advancements. When we create or discover 1 thing it can then branch out to many other things that required the knowledge of the 1 thing. ( I'm sure there's a really classy way to say that with big words, but I'm not there right now,lol)

 

[sniper762]

man has had thousands of generations for that advancement to add up. notice that it has only advanced in the last dozen. doesnt look very gradual, to me.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

change is exponential

When knowledge can not be stored, or easily passed on, advances are slow.
distribution of knowledge was once person to person and memorised ,
Then came writing, printing, books, telegraph, wireless, film, TV. computers, the internet.
Each stage added speed and accuracy and simpler retrieval.

To say that it has only advanced or speeded up in the last dozen years is not true, what might be true, is that now the advance has become so fast, it is noticeable to even the layman.

 

[paolops181]

does anyone care to attempt to explain WHY man has technologically advanced so much faster in the last few decades as opposed to his many thousands of years of existence?

“But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” -dan.12:4

 

[sniper762]

thats been since the last 2500 years or so. im talking over the last 100,000.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

man has had thousands of generations for that advancement to add up. notice that it has only advanced in the last dozen. doesnt look very gradual, to me.

I think this is flat-out wrong.

Maybe it's just a matter of modern technology being so close to you and older technology being so far away.

The difference between an iPod of today and a Walkman of 25 years ago might seem amazing to us, but it's not really that big a deal in the grand scheme of things.

Agriculture, probably the most important invention in the history of humanity, happened tens of thousands of years ago. Metallurgy began thousands of years ago... so did the technological advancements that allow us to live in cities. All of history shows technological change.

IMO, if you think that human advancement only happened in the last dozen generations, then you don't know your history. Saying this implies that the printing press, the aquaduct, astronomy, banking, gunpowder, accurate timekeeping, and a whole host of other developments that completely changed the world weren't "advancement". This is false on its face.