I mean do you think if we looked in 40, 80, 160, year increments there would be outstanding examples
You may think of the Radio , beguinning of 20th century , most of the people at that time could not read , and the main source of info was coming from the churchs , so the radio made a huge impact on them
The 19th century saw a huge advance in chemicals , railways ... .They changed religion for science
Is not that all the times happened this , when the roman empire fell down most of western europe towns got isolated and forgot a lot of techniques and culture
Many of the bridges built by romans were the only way of cross rivers in many areas of Spain until beguinning of 20th century
So I would say that very often in the past people felt (or media told them) that they were having an unprecedent exponential change in their lifes
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This is exactly what I mean. You can also toss in the printing press snd the phonograph.
But those are still mechanical, while the Roman roads/bridges example you pointed out is a much better analogy, since bridges are (technically) a natural occurrence, more so than a manufactured invention, although they’ve certainly evolved over time, with the help of humanity to become more of the latter.
Therein is the heart of what I’m looking for. Are bridges a technological advancement of man or did nature “invent” it, then use us to perfect it?
Did we domesticate wheat or did wheat domesticate us?
I don’t think we’re the end all be all we think ourselves to be. I think we’re tools like everything else in life… just doing what we gotta do like everything else, such we get the symphony we see all around us.