There was about a millenium when they trying to get technology restarted. It was called "The BlueScreen Ages."
Well, the dark/blue screen age began to flicker and dim when theologians spent whole generations on such vital questions as : how many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Or : are good and evil equidistant from eternity? Or : aristotle didn't say how many teeth are in a horse's mouth, as the monks argued this question; ans : you go out and LOOK in the HORSE'S MOUTH, you horse's ***! Along comes the Renaissance and Sir Francis Bacon : if you find something useful, then USE it...and let the pinhead theologians mumble away for all eternity. As Ronald Reagan asked YOU : What great thing have YOU ever done? Or as Jesus observed : a tree is known by its FRUIT.