A Ramayan episode, written by Ramanand Sagar still haunts my memory. Going down the memory lane, when Ravan flies in his Pushpak Vimaan to capture Sita. And then, in Mahabharat, how Sanjay describes the battle going on in Kurukshetra to the king Dhritrashtra. Plane and television. Scientist named L. Oliveira said Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible!! Even if one considers Ramayan as myth (unlike me) still they had a vision of flying objects. Which means people who wrote Ramayan were enlightened enough to think of the flying object. Moreover Mahabharat is like 3500 years old (considering evidences), which means they had a "yantra" which they called "DivyaDrashtri" (The power to see far objects) which we now call tele-vision.

So does this example say that they were more technologically advanced than we were 50 years back? If so, did they destroy it themselves? You don’t know. I don’t know. We have seen what went in past, now lets be little futuristic. 50 years from now. Imagine the technology. We all will be equipped with such technology which will make us feel wandering in the streets of New York while sitting at the small sized bed room in small town like Veraval. And then from 500 years from now, we will feel the way we want to. If one wants to eat a mango, the computer chip will make us feel like we are actually eating a mango and then feeling the taste of mango on our tongue and down the throat. Wouldn't it be amazing? Sure it will be, but not for long. People will get bored of it because nobody has to actually do anything. We all would be living in a world of illusion, more than we live right now. And then will be the rebel. People would gang up and prefer simple living, because that would be more exciting than the one created by the computer simulation. And then comes the mass destruction of the technology. After destroying it people would go back to woods and start over. And again after few thousands years invent a wheels and then again electricity and radio and so on.. And again mass destruction of the technology? You don’t know, I don’t know.