> I agree, but this only leads to more questions: why? And is it permanent? Our rapid technological progress in the last 2 centuries was an anomaly. We have 20

> I agree, but this only leads to more questions: why? And is it permanent? Our rapid technological progress in the last 2 centuries was an anomaly. We have 200,000 years of history as a species, most of which did not have nearly the same level of progress. The burden is on to you to explain what made those 2 centuries so great.