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[–] varialus ago  (edited ago)

There are people who pursue old technologies, old knowledge, and old ways of living. I can see what you're saying, but generally I think it's easier to reinvent old lost technology than it was to create it in the first place, especially where artifacts exist. While I can see the remote possibility for what you're suggesting, and some knowledge and probably the majority of human history has been lost, I can't imagine us completely losing the path from nothing up to a fairly advanced technological states because there are individuals who are interested in the preservation of that path, and even if some critical knowledge is lost, it's only a small blip that could be re-engineered or rediscovered. I do however think that knowledge occasionally has to be rediscovered on a regular basis because our process of knowledge preservation and promulgation is far from perfect. We would progress much faster if we never had to duplicate efforts, but it's a hard problem to solve, although the Internet and search engines do help.

Edit: Once robots can handle 100% of their production process or once we hit the technological singularity, all bets are off, and what you're saying has a greater chance of happening, but it's still not a guarantee. It's simple too difficult to predict how a whole society that doesn't need to work would function.