> One thing that occurs to me is that we often fail to believe that people 3000 years ago were just as smart as we are ... I think of this as "hubris of the no

> One thing that occurs to me is that we often fail to believe that people 3000 years ago were just as smart as we are ... I think of this as "hubris of the now." This is where people cannot fathom how previous generations could achieve what they did without the tools and/or knowledge which exists in the present. An example of this is found when contemplating how atmospheric differential equations were solved with computers having about 4k of RAM in the 1940's.