Stages of Civilization

These stages are pointed out most clearly in the book The New Renaissance (Douglas Robertson, 1998). The ideas appear in many other places too.

Stage	Data	Defined by	Studied by	Mathematics	Education
0	10⁷	neocortex	Anthropology, Genetics	(none)	(none)
1	10⁹	language	Anthropology, Linguistics	proof	mentor
2	10¹¹	writing	Archaeology	axiomatic method	library
3	10¹⁷	printing	History	standardized symbols	textbooks, public school
4	10²⁵	computers	Sociology?	experiment	self-taught specialists

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