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This answer is circular though: “they didn’t have the technology because they just didn’t have the technology yet”. Time alone isn’t even really an answer. It
by tjs8rj 4y ago
This answer is circular though: “they didn’t have the technology because they just didn’t have the technology yet”.
Time alone isn’t even really an answer. It only takes time because of the pace of innovation, and the pace of innovation depends on things like culture, tech, geography, population, communication, money, etc
- WastingMyTime89 4y agoDoes it though? Seems to me that the pace of innovation is mostly dictated by previous innovation. Political systems and organisations shift and change. What passes for the core moves. Meanwhile things march on. I don’t really see how it’s circular. They didn’t have the technology because developing technology takes time. Innovation used to happen on a time scale which made political structures not very relevant.
- evv555 4y agoThe technological progress of the modern era is a product of the Renaissance movement beginning in the 14th/15th century. A transformations that cuts through culture, society, and technology. Social changes like the emergence of scientific organizations and Rationalism are impossible to meaningfully disentangle from modern technological artifacts.
- ghaff 4y agoYou're right that the pace will vary--starting with geographical determinism--but there's still some sense of a technology tree that has to be traversed to some degree whether more quickly or more slowly.