What are the technologies we modern humans have that the Mashco-Piro do not? It's just interesting to think about the kind of technologies we take for granted.
...electricity generation, and grids, and batteries, and solar panels, and electric motors, metals and materials, mass-produced steel, aluminum, advanced alloys, plastics, composites, glass, concr- all of those things.
Tools, of course, and machinery, the infrastructure of roads [chuckles] and bridges, and buildings, and the weapons of war.
Everything but the spears and the arrows that they have, and the medicine and biology.
Of course, they probably have-... complicated medicines that they have developed for their own-
I mean, metal, think you have to be able to excavate into the earth and, and forge metal.
These people don't even- as, uh, one of the anthr- local anthropologists said to me, a Peruvian anthropologist, he said, "You know, people think of them as Stone Age tribes." And he was like, "They don't have stones." He's like, "They don't...
They just have their bamboo and their string." And so they're living an incredibly simple life.
Well, they hear the sounds of the chainsaws, the sounds of machinery in the distance.
What are the technologies we modern humans have that the Mashco-Piro do not? It's just interesting to think about the kind of technologies we take for granted.
...electricity generation, and grids, and batteries, and solar panels, and electric motors, metals and materials, mass-produced steel, aluminum, advanced alloys, plastics, composites, glass, concr- all of those things.
Tools, of course, and machinery, the infrastructure of roads [chuckles] and bridges, and buildings, and the weapons of war.
Everything but the spears and the arrows that they have, and the medicine and biology.
Of course, they probably have-... complicated medicines that they have developed for their own-
I mean, metal, think you have to be able to excavate into the earth and, and forge metal.
These people don't even- as, uh, one of the anthr- local anthropologists said to me, a Peruvian anthropologist, he said, "You know, people think of them as Stone Age tribes." And he was like, "They don't have stones." He's like, "They don't...
They just have their bamboo and their string." And so they're living an incredibly simple life.
Well, they hear the sounds of the chainsaws, the sounds of machinery in the distance.
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