In the generalized sense people got a lot dumber and less creative over the last few decades. If we assume linearity our ancient ancestors must have been brilliant renaissance men. It makes good sense too! Like this we are much more dependent on technology and on others. Most of us cant grow crops and our [specialized] schedule is so full we need others to make simple things like pizza. Socially we are now lacking but in productivity we are [as-if] one giant tightly knitted organism.
> and our [specialized] schedule is so full we need others to make simple things like pizza
Well put!
The past two years I made a home made power generator of mostlY scrape parts of all sorts. Took me a long time on the internet, various forum, etc. to find out about the vasics of mechanics, transmission, chemistry, etc. At one german speaking forum of electrical engineering I got particularly upset because instead of explaining me things like how three phase power etc.works, all I got was stop it, it's to dangerous, you are about to violate rule number xyz.
I honestly believe we would no longer be able to fly to the moon or build the pyramids.
