Much has been written about a time in unrecorded past when there appeared to be an explosion of human discovery and knowledge. Primitives suddenly were creating written languages, laws were developed, social structures formed with organized governments, great constructions began, complicated surgeries performed and a long series of unexplainable advances occurred to create the question of "from where did all this knowledge originate?"
But if you think about it, a sixty-year-old man had a great-grandfather living in a time when the common transportation was the horse and men still dueled with swords. There was no production of electric energy or mass communication. Medicine was still a speculative and rather primitive science where doctors didn't even know that infections were linked to their unclean hands. Then suddenly, within the last 100 years, another explosion of human progress took place. Radio, telegraph, automobiles, motion pictures, television, vaccines, airplanes, atomic energy, space exploration, computers, internet . . . . all happening within a time span representing the snap of a finger within human history.
Think of it this way . . . . if we view human history as a city block and Adam and Eve were at the first corner . . . . man progressed very little throughout that block but 95% of everything we know today was invented within the coat of paint at the next corner.
So I ask, what is happening and does anyone really think about it?