In the words of #Idiocracy We’re heading for a dumbing down. Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd... it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most... and left the intelligent to become an endangered species…

I keep saying I think the species is devolving. I also wonder if it's happened before, maybe triggered by events such as The Black Death etc. Discoveries like this, for example, imply we later started from scratch again.

Unlocking the secrets of the world's oldest computer

Over a century ago, divers discovered a shipwreck containing an ancient machine that rewrote human history.