Keith, Hi! :)
Mind you I'm of two minds about the current "fast" pace of innovations.
<<If early man (from about 50,000 BC) and his immediate predecessors were as
intelligent as they were, why the very slow procession of innovations?>>
It's a matter of tools. More tools to work with, more new tools can be
produced.
But
Do not underestimate the rate of innovation among preindustrial cultures.
Just go to a museum and look at the tools that there were in a typical 18th
century home that you'd never see today. and if you could see the same for a
20th century pre-industrial home somewhere. People are very inventive.
It's just that now we live in such a "man-made" environment, that it's all a
"tool". Thus the need for a high rate of innovatin in developing more and
more tools to fix and alter that man-made environment.
If we were 10,000 times more reliant on a natural environment (hunter
gatherers), we wouldn't need such a high rate of invention.
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Steve Weinberg
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