how is it that from 200 years theres so much technology?

Question

human civilisations have been around for thousands of years how come only in the last couple of hundreds of years has technology advanced so much specialy in the 20th centyry

Answer 1

steam ,and then ,oil and finally alien technology

Answer 2

The technology has been slowly building over the millenia. You can't have a computer without an arrowhead first. That invention leads to more and more, until you get Deep Thought.

We've had a few bursts, when discoveries and inventions piled up on one another. The major ones recently were the Industrial Revolution and the computer revolution we're currently a part of. For instance, with the development of computers, we first needed everything that came before- metallurgy, plastics, electricity, all that. Then, they started playing with tubes and punchcards and got computers the size of large rooms. What really got everything going was when someone came up with the microchip. As soon as that happened, computers exploded (not literally). Within thirty years, we go from computers the size of a room to my lovely laptop, sitting on my knees, which has more power than the guys in the early 70's dreamed of. We've got Yahoo and Google and YouTube. It's nuts.

Answer 3

1. Access to knowledge is right at your fingerips now.
2. Almost all available technology to make something is out there now also.

As the others have said, that for the past 300 years the technology and industry were in development; and the means for communication and travel developed only in the last century. We can get some things from the drawing board to the show room in days where it use to take years.

This is only the beginning of our future! Wow!

Answer 4

if you examine the history of the past several thousands of years, you'll find some surprising technology of old. technology advanced through trial and error (empiricism). progress by empiricism is slow because new discoveries are codified as "recipes" (a set of instructions for achieving a particular result). such recipes don't give any information about the result if the variables of the procedure are changed. in other words, the results of empiricism do not point the way to further progress.

if you combine empirical investigations with scientific modeling, the progress increases dramatically. theoretical behavior is inferred from emperimental data and models of the phenomena are developed which can then be used to predict behavior for which experiments have not been tried yet. models also help our understanding of the phenomena under investigation.

when you look at products today (take for example a laptop computer), it is clear that expertise needed to be developed in many fields and disciplines of study and rely heavily on earlier achievements. you can't design a modern computer without using a computer to help you, let alone have the expertise to reliably and economically manufacture them.

Answer 5

it's actually only the last one hundred years that the phenomenal things have occured; although I decline my agreement that it is for the better.

Technology has assured an incredibly FAST downhill ride to total extinction.

There's no cure because everyone approves of it; they are mostly incapable of understanding that by prohibiting and condemning the learning process of others, they are assuring complete failure.

I hope all judges and cops go to hell back where they came from so they can cast their "God-like" judgement on those whose lives depend on Satan's approval.

I am NOT religious at all, in fact I don't know why I mentioned satan cause I don't believe there's a heaven or a hell, therefore neither could exist, but I do believe in the dying art of HUMANITY, and by God, who the hell are we to think we can make our own rules in this existance that is irrevocably run by people who know FEAR intimately, but nothing else.

Answer 6

If i had a graph of all recorded civilizations known to have been viable across history's pages, and that graph depicted each civilizations cultural beginnings and endings, this 'question' would then be asking '''which cultures in different civilizations were the most successful [and why did each eventually prevail]..?''' or...'''what did each culture uniquely develop as it matured in it's civilizations environments?''', or,.. '''what similarity's existed among successful cultures in various civilizations..@ [.. what developments caused there eventual dominance]?'''
Each generation thought of progress as being 'dinamic' while they lived...and relitive to each generation, it WAS.

Answer 7

human knowledge compounds exponentially based on human to human contact which spreads knowledge. It's like a snowball. Once it got rolling, it's out of control.