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In fairness to humanity, We've been around for 195,000 years but we only hit the critical mass of modern technology in the last few centuries, progress since th
by noir_lord 10y ago
In fairness to humanity, We've been around for 195,000 years but we only hit the critical mass of modern technology in the last few centuries, progress since then has been incredibly rapid against pretty much any natural timescale.
So it's more like 194,700 years of stumbling around tripping over our feet and 300 years of actually making progress.
We went from steam engines to the moon in <300 years.
Yes I'm aware ancient civilizations had made progress and fell back but nothing like the civilizations we have now in an absolute sense, it's really fair to compare a Xeon processor to anything that went before.