I have no idea how this sentence:

> Looking at properly aligned buildings I realized school never prepared me into thinking city planner might have been a bronze age job.

Is related at all to this sentence:

> How come we call mobile phones progress?

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cryptonector 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think u/noiv might be saying that ancient cities were better than ours.

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bcraven 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If humans were so advanced to have city planning at that point, how do we only have mobile phones by now?

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anon84873628 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

There is a reason we name eras after materials - the bronze age, iron age, etc. Currently we're living in the silicon age.

Progress in fundamental materials science tends to unlock whole new technology paradigms.

You can do city planning with sod and stone. Mobile phones, on the other hand, require a nearly incomprehensible level of materials innovation. It is everything from the battery to conductive touch screen glass to plastic casing to silicon microchip... Not to mention all the science of satellites and rockets and radio waves that make them useful...

By the way, the show "Connections" by James Burke is brilliant. A must-watch for any tech curious nerd.

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cortesoft an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Because city planning doesn’t require the same technological advancements that a cell phone does?

Human sophistication and intelligence is not the same a technological advancements.

	▲	afavour an hour ago \| parent [-]
		And sometimes offhand lighthearted comments are not the same as serious questions!

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Razengan an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe they did but became enlightened and destroyed their phones after versions of Facebook and Twitter cause their civilization to collapse?