In 6000 years of recorded human history why did the majority

That totally forgoes the Finno-Korean hyperwar

Development is a function of population density and available energy, and population density and available energy is a function of development.

The last two hundred years saw the first exploitation of fossil fuels.

>>2107737
What an awfully designed chart. It forgoes the prediluvian developments of the Ancient Finns.

Liberalism

>>2107737
The more tech you have, the more new tech you can make with it and the more resources you have to splurge on it.

>>2107737

Atlantis was discovered in 1488

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>>2107782
It's OK guys I have the real chart.

>>2107926
>WE WUZ PROTO KINGS N SHIET

>>2107926
history may well look something like this in 10000 years

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>>2107737
Invention ain't free. The tech tree gotta be littred with increasing returns on existing technologies. Raymond "RAY" kurzweil aka "RAY KURZWEIL" is not my futurist. he is deluded narcissist and looks like a dork as well :DD.

>>2107764
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>>2107926

redpill me more about this finish korean hyperwar

>>2107737
Due to the scientific and industrial revolution. We discovered ways to invent stuff more effectively than with trial and error and methods to mass produce and transport these inventions very easily.
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>>2108020
This plus tech builds on tech. You can't just create a computer you needed thousands of other inventions prior to that some of which are also dependant n things being discovered before them.

>>2107737
The last two hundred years have been a boom for humanity mainly because of cornerstone advancements made in the 1800's. The first being medical advancements in general, when humanity left its bloodletting phase and started its soap and soup phase to drastically improve the mortality rate with the advent of vaccines, antibiotics, and so on. Now diseases aren't as debilitating, where before a widespread disease could bring entire empires to their knees.

The second is immense improvement in farming techniques to yield larger crops in greater numbers, greater accessibility to food made the process of obtaining food much easier.

With societies as a whole largely freed from the worries of securing food and staving off disease, that frees up time and energy that was once dedicated to just surviving, now people could focus on much more and move forward as a larger society, rather than advancing in the form of a handful of intellectuals and engineers such as it was in the renaissance and Enlightenment, with education freed up to provide training for skilled tasks to more people than ever before.

>>2107737
Because technological advancements are born out of need and problems more than people trying to improve everything all the time.

>>2107737
All major breakthroughs need favorable conditions as well as pure coincidence. Scientific leaps are random.

>>2107737
was there constant technological advancement during the late roman empire or had things simply stagnated?

>>2109095
Stagnation or even regression because the economic and social conditions deteriorated, you had the sesterius losing most of its value, plagues, continuous invasions, political instability that was exceptional even for emperor era Rome and so on.

>>2108020
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>>2109067
These are all true

Inventions compound by nature, the more people who are able to add their own tiny seemingly-insignificant feature or idea to something, the better it gets over time.

for example: guy comes up with voltaic pile, paves way for electrochemical theory, guy comes up with electrolysis, people figure out ways of purifying metals from this, later on a guy first purifies silicon to make radar components in WW2, people figure out how to purify it even more, eventually we end up with silicon transistor which allows rapid growth of processors

now that transistors are better and we can cram more of them into a smaller space using less energy, computing gets faster which makes it easier to design complex architecture and automation, which in turn makes computing faster which then repeats in a feedback loop

something seemingly small like two guys figuring out a slightly better way to arrange logic gates used to add binary strings now allows all the adders to operate just a little faster and with a little less energy, which means it's now slightly easier for people to come up with things making memory better and clock speeds better and data transfer faster etc

the history of older technology has followed the same type of process, but it's ultimately limited to however many people are adding to it. the higher the population of scientists, the higher the chance for scientific contributions.
some tribal person figuring out how to strip bark and twist it together to make string eventually leads to someone weaving strings together to make a basket, or make a loom, or make simple tools. now the whole tribe can use those tools and random improved versions or uses of them will follow. if the tribe is struggling to gather food, more time needs to be spent gathering food instead of fiddling with strings