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Originally Posted by lumberjim
i was thinking that the leaps we've made in manufacturing, genetics, medicine, transportation, and especially the dissemination of information have been more than exponentially. Whereas given the amount of progress made in the 30,000 years prior to 1750, it seems almost stagnant.
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I think, Jim, we've gone through stages of growth, and stages of ignorance. It's true that we've progressed more exponentially since the 1700s, but I'm not exactly sure all that progress has been positive. maybe, in some cases, we've progressed too fast for our own good.