> Cutting-edge (heh) technology 70,000 years ago was the stone blade as well as the earliest known primitive art
I think it's important to remember that technology is highly, highly iterative. It's not like if Elon Musk were born 70k years ago we'd have cavemen with electric cars.
In fact, if all of us were somehow warped back in time that far, I fear we'd be even worse off. We know how to roll fiber optic networks and write ML algorithms, but we'd starve before figuring out how to chase down an animal, or know which berries to eat.
I think it's important to remember that technology is highly, highly iterative. It's not like if Elon Musk were born 70k years ago we'd have cavemen with electric cars.
In fact, if all of us were somehow warped back in time that far, I fear we'd be even worse off. We know how to roll fiber optic networks and write ML algorithms, but we'd starve before figuring out how to chase down an animal, or know which berries to eat.