Will rapidly advancing technology make us primitive in the long run?

[devonin]

Unless.. We'd somehow use the books as firewood like they did 2000 years ago at the start of the dark ages.

As an aside...2000 years ago was still right smack in the middle of the rather advanced, cultured and intellectual Roman Empire.

The "Dark Ages" (Less perjoratively called the 'Middle Ages') is generally stated to have started in 476 with the deposition of the last Roman Emperor, and extends to around about 1350.

To be completely honest, the "dark ages" aren't called dark because people weren't advanced at all, they were called dark because there was very little historical recording of information, so we don't know all that much about what went on. IMO, the philosophy and intellectual thought of the middle ages leaves the renaissance in the dust. Middle ages philosophy (Like Thomas Aquinas, as an exemplar) was substantially more deep, well thought out and rigorous than the majority of renaissance thought.