If you asked an intellectual in 1500, they would tell you that the peak of civilization was old Rome and that Europe had gone downhill since
The notion of inexorable, accelerating human progress is fairly new (starts in the late 19th century and only becomes mainstream after WW2)
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Progress is one of those modern ideas that have been artificially retrofitted to all of human history
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The notion of "exponential progress" (which IMHO does not mean anything) is even more recent.... I'd say the 80's
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