Frosstbyte

The world of the Dark Ages and the world today really couldn't be more different, particularly with respect to access to information which is what caused the Dark Ages in the first place. Falling literacy rates and the loss of the collected knowledge of Rome with the end of the Roman Empire?

The tools are there, which they emphatically weren't during the Dark Age (well, they were, ironically, in the Middle East, but taking a multi-year voyage to learn in the Middle East was a lot harder than connecting to the internet).