only focus on technology as we think of it now - computers, GPS, advanced medical procedures, transportation etc. There are hints of technological things from way way back, such as the pyramids, Stonehenge etc. Overall, I am betting we are more advanced now, as it should be. The world hinges on forward progress and it makes sense that we are more advanced now and that the future will bring even higher technology. I think there's a lot about history that we don't know. I have a hunch (that can't quite be backed up) that human society is much older than we realize. I think a lot of them disappeared over the years. In this form, using microchips and the like, no. In some other form, entirely possible. After all, the Egyptian pyramids are still a mystery to us, and we can't build them as fast as they did with modern technology... Brings us back to the whole alien conspiracy... The great thing about time (and glaciation) is that has the habit of wiping out any evidence older than around 15,000 years old. Equally advanced technological societies have a habit of cremating their dead and also digging up stuff that would have otherwise remained protected from the ravages of time. Horns of Jericho doesn't bring the images of sonic weaponry to mind? Sodom and Gommorah and weapons of mass destruction such as fusion bombs? the Philistines pinched the ark of the covenant and gave it back 7 months later because every