Originally Posted by
Tazz
If you like reading, the start of 'Guns, Germs and Steel' by Jared Diamond covered this a little, although maybe more from the 'intelligence' angle.
The guts that I took from it in relation to this is that 'advanced' is basically a society of people who have lost all their survival skills and rely on technologies that they have no idea how to replicate/reproduce, and are pretty screwed without them
Probably a bit of a tangent from the answer you're looking for, but to ponder (and the book is awesome if that sort of stuff holds your interest).
A well-used copy of Diamond's book sits less than six feet from my chair as I write this ...
I think the definition is probably valid ... (tho' like Ocean1 I'm not sure it's exactly what Diamond says - but it can be extrapolated from hsi book) ... I like the idea that it does not carry an inherent concept that "advanced" is a good thing ... in fact it places it in rather a negative light - without advanced civilization many many people today would be screwed ... because they have no survival skills
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
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