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Two millennia ago people were using computers to track astronomical movements, they invented underwater concrete so they could create seaports where none existed, they created aqueducts with slopes of 1” to every 10’ to carry water hundreds of miles to supply their cities with fresh water, they built bridges, roads, auditoriums, and arenas that are still in use today, they built giant arched and domed buildings that not only baffle us today on how they built it, but still stand despite centuries of earthquakes.
Today we can recognize only a few thousand people who had fundamental insights into science and technology, out of the billions upon billions (107 billion to be exact) of people who came before us.
This in no way disparages the intelligence of ancient man but acknowledges a fundamental fact ... then, as today, genius and scientific insight are the most rare of nature's gift's to humans ... and we need to cherish that gift wherever we find it.