[extropy-chat] late response to Dan/Technotranscendence

[Alfio Puglisi]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Kevin Freels wrote:

>Are we really different, or is it just our culture and environment? If we
>are different, then that would explain the slow pace of advancement for the
>first 150,000 years of our species. Maybe only 1 in 200,000 is a tool
>"maker" while the rest are simply tool "users". A tool "maker" would have
>been very rare then.

Scott Adams's book "Dilbert" makes the same claim. He blames civilization
to sex and press. It's an interesting line of thought, to say the least :)

Ciao,
Alfio