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Originally Posted by alatar
So, in many mythologies, we're experiencing a knowledge entropy where, if one were to graph it, would be a downward asymptotic curve where we'll always know some things, but nothing like our ancestors or the gods.
To me, however, in the real world, it's the exact opposite.
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Well, maybe now, but it was not always like that. If you went to Egypt 1000 years ago and asked anyone to build a pyramid, they would just laugh at you (Even with enough manpower).
In fact, to me it seems that things did go slightly downward in the technological level in the early middle ages.