As far as I know, everything we have now was here then. Why did we not use it? Oh that evolution crap again,,, maybe we did evolve. I like color TV better...
2007-06-13 08:14:50 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
James and Henry, needs gf's any volunteers. They are WAY to worked up over this silly question...
2007-06-13 09:39:19 · update #1
We have more knowledge that previous generations which is normal. We not any smarter. We are smart in different ways. People of past generations knew more about the land and nature than most of us today, We know more about city life and mechanics than they did, normally.
2007-06-13 08:23:10 · answer #1 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I feel that we are not as intelligent as previous generations. We feel empowered by our technological creations and advanced communications, but in all truth they make us weaker. How many people in the world really understand software programing, of genetic engineering - very few highly educated individuals come up with most new products and scientific advancements.
You brag about color TV - but can you fully expalin how this technology works? I mean, everything from how broadcast signals get from a sattelite to your TV or how the pixals within the unit itself really work. Obviously, many members of previous centuries had intimate knowledge of things like the stars for navagation, roots and herbs, agriculture and other natural sciences. TV certainly isn't evolution!
2007-06-13 15:57:24 · answer #2 · answered by JamesW 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Smarter? No, the brain has not enlarged or taken on added characteristics. We are wiser though in some areas of knowledge because of what our ancestors discovered before us though, & passed on to us. For instance, many tried to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs & some people were able to decipher a letter or word or two. This helped others born later to discover a little more. All of this helped Champillion to break the code completely & then the decipherment was complete. But he needed all the little breakthroughs that had happened previously, to help him solve it completely. Champillion's brain wasn't far more evolved than those before him, its just all the little breakthroughs helped him decipher the language completely.
2007-06-14 03:18:58 · answer #3 · answered by Bronweyn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at the dark ages, when the Roman empire collapsed a lot of knowledge went with it. It wasn't until almost a thousand years later when the Arabs started collecting and translating all books they could find. When the crusades began those many of those books were brought back.
But knowledge was power and the monks were the only ones in Europe at that time that knew how to read.
2007-06-13 22:22:12 · answer #4 · answered by Belgariad 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt that we are actually smarter on a whole. Better nutrition and longer life spans have probably helped some in developed countries to excel. I think that more likely it is the fact that technological advancement multiplies the more we know and learn. So the better our technology the faster we will come up with even better technology, if that makes sense.
2007-06-13 15:20:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't confuse intelligence with technology. Centuries ago, people were as "smart" (or as unintelligent) as we are now. They're the ones who laid the foundation for the technology we enjoy today and will enjoy in the future: electricity, steam engines, telephones, etc. Color TV is not a sign of evolving, it's a sign of developing better technological devices.
2007-06-13 15:21:23 · answer #6 · answered by Elaine P...is for Poetry 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. I have never seen or heard of a smart century.
Okay, use proper phrasing next time.
We now have become so smart we can destroy the world ten times over, know how to waste prodigiously, know how to strip the earth of resources faster and faster, know how to pollute more and ruin whole ecosystems, and make entertainment for brain-dead people.
Yay, humanity.
Lucky we also know how to cure diseases that used to be incurable.
We know how to make war look good and necessary, and demonize others who don't believe in our version of God.
We have grown foolish and lack any wisdom.
That's progress!!
2007-06-13 15:25:05 · answer #7 · answered by henry d 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not think we are smarter. But we certainly do have a lot more knowledge available to everyone.
More knowledge + more people massaging it + more experimentation + etc.
It doesn't mean we are smarter -- only that what we have to build on keeps on growing.
2007-06-13 17:29:39 · answer #8 · answered by carl j 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are no smarter but we know more. There's a big difference.
2007-06-14 01:02:45 · answer #9 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋