I wonder if Socrates or Cicero ever thought about themselves as living in ancient times. We are living in ancient times today, of course, from our distant descendants' point of view. Who knows if they will call our era a golden age or a precursor to collapse. I think we should spend a little money on them, build a Perenno facility just in case they run into trouble. Taking measures to shorten a dark age sounds goofy if civilization never falls apart, but how sorry we could be if the nightmare does come to pass.