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Posted: 06 Jan 2022

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 Dinesh
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So the world we live in is almost brand new -- older in some places than others but, in comparison to the 2 million years of tool-making history, box-fresh. After the Neolithic Revolution the rate of change slowed almost to a crawl. During next 6,500 years there were remarkable technological advances -- the invention of the water-wheel, the windmill, for example -- but until 400 years ago technological change was slow, and it was frequently reversed. The Romans were amazed by stories of what Archimedes (287-212 BCE) had been able to do; and fifteenth-century Italian architects explored the ruins buildings of ancient Rome convinced that they were studying a far more advanced civilization than their own. No one imagined a day when the history of humanity could be conceived as a history of progress, yet barely three centuries later, in the middle of eighteenth century, progress had come to seem to inevitable that it was read backwards into the whole previous history.. . .
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 Dinesh
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The INVENTION of SCIENCE
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