Civilization & technology don't move forward monotonically, unlike what many people believe these days -- it took 1.5 millennia for the Western world to return to this level of sophistication in this domain
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This low-quality picture is the Antikythera mechanism, an astronomical mechanical computer (gear-based, featuring epicyclic gearing) from 100 BC. It could compute the motion of the moon and predict eclipses years in advance.pic.twitter.com/AD2nIk8Xz6
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Nor is progress a scalar score; it has countless axes, and not all of them move at the same speed, nor even in the same direction
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It is interesting that it took a person with knowledge in Math and Physics to give meaning to this object. Wiki: "Investigations into the object were dropped until British science historian and Yale University professor Derek J. de Solla Price became interested in it in 1951"
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but it canz play candy crush?
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