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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
is there anything that hasn't advanced like that though?
Just look at the world's population - https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ We hit 1 billion people in 1800 and it took 130 years to get to 2 billion. We went from 6 to 7 billion in like 12 years. That's pure technological advances to be able to support that many people. |
Sure, we have not advanced at all in political systems and governance, for example.
The population increase increasing the rate of development is a great argument, but I would need to do some extra work charting various tech development tracks and tying them directly to preceding generation population growth to believe it fully. And as you identified, part of that massive population growth is due to technological growth (though I will easily here say that I sincerely doubt Faber was influenced by NHI tech when he figured out how the process that allows us to enhance food production capacity globally through nitrogen use.)
My point remains, and you have helped it, one cannot state that there hasn't been unprecedented technological growth over the last 80 years. There has been, in basically all fields of science, at a pace that is inconceivable compared to the preceding 2,000 years of tech development.