The system of nature of which man is a part tends to be self-balancing self-adjusting self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
If we had had the right technology back then you would have seen Eva Braun...
Our ability to find humor in the world to make connections between previously unconnected notions to create new ideas to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.