Anybody who didn't get to ride the knowledge scalability wave that came from Gutenberg's printing press is now way behind.
That's basically every body apart from the west.
That's basically every body apart from the west.
Education was a very elite thing in most societies, even in the west too. But some thing very strange happened around Gutenberg's times and west was able to take advantage of that unique situation.
For example, there is no parallel of Renaissance or Industrial revolution in any non-western country. China comes close, but even then, not exactly.