> I would argue that it needs to be more or less continuous, if we lost the technology it's a different age imo. You're looking at history through modern eyes.

> I would argue that it needs to be more or less continuous, if we lost the technology it's a different age imo. You're looking at history through modern eyes. Back in the past there was no collective `we`, we were much more separated as a species than we are now. The idea that there is a global 'us' is a very, very new idea.