Have you ever wondered how we got so technologically advanced?

Question

Seriously. Its remarkable. We started off with nothing more than stone and fire. And look at us now.

Answer 1

We are the descendants of tough, intelligent, resourceful survivors. How many times, I wonder, did they come to the brink of extinction, 2 to 5 million years ago! The ones who were dull, slow, disinterested, lazy, were selectively eliminated in a very harsh environment there, in East Africa.

We still have the genes which survived that crucible. It's no wonder that we are curious and obsessively inventive.

Answer 2

Yeah, and all the greatest achievments have had a downside too.

A system that takes moving pictures instantly across the world, and look what we do with it: Teletubbies.

A system that lets us talk to anyone from anywhere. We get stupid people on the train telling everyone they will be at the station in 10 minutes.

Light is controlled so that millions of photons are dancing to exactly the same rhythm to make a laser. We get kids popping balloons with high power green lasers.

We throw spacecraft into the air to do surveying and telecoms. We get a bunch of crappy TV channels.

Answer 3

trial and error... some things work so we keep doing them... somethings don't so we don't do them again; but we learn from both... technology has a snowball effect the more advanced we are the quicker we advance because we no more things that work and don't work and we can use this knowledge for different problems... also better communication with the rest of the world means we can share information much easier... check out ted.com it's where experts in all kinds of things from around the world come together and share knowledge... unfortunately war is one of the biggest drives for technological knowledge. many of the things we use and take for granted are taken from the technology brought about by war... the Nazi s gave us all kinds of knowledge that we wouldn't have had, as they were free to do all kinds of appaulling things to humans and learn from those things... it s all about survival, problem solving, learning from history and curiosity...

Answer 4

Jondalar and Ayla invented everything. Read Jean M. Auel's historical documentary, Earth's Children. (Adults only.)

Seriously, though. Primates have one peculiar adaptive specialty: intelligence. All primates have large brain-to-body weight ratios. Hominids have carried the adaptation further than other primates, with the maximum so far being Cro-Magnon at 1550 cubic centimeters of brain volume.

Cro-Magnon lived from 40,000 years ago, and he is the still-reigning mental champion of our planet. He was the first White race, from whom all the modern subraces - including the main ones: Nordic/Germanic, Alpine/Celtic - are descended. And some Cro-Magnons are still around today; e.g., in northern Finland. It was these groups who gave the world its first and only technological civilization, and small wonder.

Cro-Magnon and his descendants provided the mental hardware and software, but the necessary exosomatic energy came from fossil fuels. Once this primate had coal and oil in his grasp, he transformed the entire world. However, he did not keep it. Supremely creative though they were, there was another race that far outpaced Whites in subterfuge, in trickery, in gimmickry, in power-mongering, in huckstering, in fast-talking fakery. With their own array of talents, this other race stripped the White race of the political suzerainty in most of the countries that the White race built.

That is how things stand today, and it is how things have stood, more or less, since the middle of the 20th century. The dispossession of Cro-Magnon's children began in the 17th century, with the rise of certain banking families in Europe. These families instigated wars in Europe and in the United States for the primary purpose of loaning money to both sides in all of the conflicts and thereby burdening every nation with debt in their favor.

We can only speculate how far life on Earth would have gone had it not been for the "alien" infection of the White race. Instead of a few relatively pointless trips to the moon, the dream of true interplanetary colonization might have come to pass. We are nowhere near where we might have been because, due in part to the growing burden of a monetized debt money system, we have been unable to devote sufficient resources to interplanetary development.

It might have happened. Now it never will. World production of fossil fuels peaked in 2004 and has been in slow decline since. The rate of decline will increase, starting now. The era of cheap energy is over, and the generous window of opportunity that nature granted us for carrying Earthly life outward from its planetary cradle is now closed. It will stay closed, for ever.

Answer 5

thank your grandpa!!.....

A very self-important college freshman attending a recent football
game, took it upon himself to explain to a senior citizen sitting next
to him why it was impossible for the older generation to understand his
generation.

'You grew up in a different world, actually an almost primitive one,'
the student said, loud enough for many of those nearby to hear.
'The young people of today grew up with television, jet planes, space
travel, man walking on the moon, our spaceships have visited Mars. We
have nuclear energy, electric and hydrogen cars, computers with DSL,
bsp; light-speed processing ..and, ' pausing to take another drink of
beer....

The Senior took advantage of the break in the student's litany and
said, 'You're right, son. We didn't have those things when we were
young........so we invented them. Now, you arrogant little ship, what
are you doing for the next generation?'

The applause was resounding...

Answer 6

Each subsequent generation's I.Q. increases an average of 10%. I read that this was due to the evolution of baby food.

http://danenet.wicip.org/ncs/forumiqscores.htm

Answer 7

Yeah... too bad for the dark ages - else, we'd be living on Mars right now.

Answer 8

It's called China!

Answer 9

Yeah if everyone was just like me, we'd still be hanging out in caves.

Answer 10

not just china
egypt, mesopotamia, india, greece, rome all these great civilization