It seems unlikely but not impossible given how strong status quo bias is among humans. NIMBY movement, reactionary and conservative politics in general, lots of examples of politics that call for less or no change.
Humans have had periods of tens or hundreds of thousands of years where we stagnate and technology doesn’t seem to change much, as far as we can tell from the archaeological record, so this isn’t unprecedented.
It seems unlikely but not impossible given how strong status quo bias is among humans. NIMBY movement, reactionary and conservative politics in general, lots of examples of politics that call for less or no change.
Humans have had periods of tens or hundreds of thousands of years where we stagnate and technology doesn’t seem to change much, as far as we can tell from the archaeological record, so this isn’t unprecedented.