Ancient Greece was also a society that was much closer to the Stone Age than ours. I'm not sure we can really internalize many lessons from what were at best I

Ancient Greece was also a society that was much closer to the Stone Age than ours. I'm not sure we can really internalize many lessons from what were at best Iron Age societies, and the fruits of technology weren't well spread. When my great-grandfather was born, people in our village eeked a hand-to-mouth existence that wasn't much different from that our ancestors would have lived 1500 years ago. When I was born, vaccines became normalized, electricity existed, indoor plumbing became common, etc. The fact that human capital is now being nurtured and enabled in most societies, we can actually see major changes being unlocked. I mean, if we're brutally honest - has scientific and engineering research really slowed down? Artifical Intelligence, Genetic Engineering, Global Communication, and Handheld Oracles have become normalized in just 25 years. This is the kind of technology you'd see in science fiction 30-40 years before today. For every negative about a technology you can also point to a positive. It's not technology that's the issue - it's humans.