Does technology drive history? Are improvements in living and

>>1455769
>When technological systems break down, will the world revert back to barbarism and slavery, etc?

What did he mean by this?

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>>1455777
Olduvai theory :^)

http://dieoff.org/page125.htm

>>1455781
Is this like the Peak oil equivalent of Truthism?

>>1455789
The only problem with the theory is the specific timing of events. Everything else is solid.

>>1455769
>Does technology drive history?
No.
>Are improvements in living and working conditions during the twentieth century the result of social and political reforms or primarily due to technological advances?
Both.
>Did technology or morality end slavery?
Morality mostly. Dont know places where slavery continued to exist legally, but became financially bankrupt.
>When technological systems break down, will the world revert back to barbarism and slavery, etc?
Yes. Sorta. Feudalism and shit.

>>1455777
That by reversing technologically we also reverse socially. You could argue women's rights were inevitable post industrialisation of Britian

Partially.

>>1455926
More so the fact that technological progress has up until now provided an abundance of the necessities of life as well as the luxuries. When technological systems of distrubution and production break down due to energy or resource shortages, for example, the return of scarcity will cause humanity to revert back to a scarcity mindset and all the negative things that entails.

>2016
>being deterministic

>>1455887
>Dont know places where slavery continued to exist legally, but became financially bankrupt.

Huh?