[DoreenMichele]

we lived in huts and didn't have antibiotics or anything resembling modern medicine

When antibiotics were discovered, the world announced the end of disease. Today, there are endless articles about the rise of antibiotic resistant infections, plus dystopian fiction about a post antibiotics world.

I'm not 100 percent convinced we are as clever as we imagine ourselves to be.

[magduf]

You've got to be kidding. Just because we haven't achieved perfection as far as medical science, you think we're still just as well off as the days where people routinely died young from various infections?

Antibiotics aren't going away, they're just having to get better to cope with the evolution of bacteria.