We'd def be ahead in some ways, but think about all the wars and power struggles over knowledge like that. It might've changed the course of empires and nations. Totally wild to think about.

What if the library had texts that revealed aliens helped build ancient wonders? And now we're in the dark, smh.

Let's be real, some other disaster would've probably destroyed it later on. Humanity has a way of messing stuff up.

Mars colony, pshh, ez. We'd probably be terraforming Venus by now, lol. Human race could've bounced from one planet to another like it's no big deal!

Yo, what about all the epic poems and plays we missed out on? Could've had the next Iliad or Odyssey!

The philosophies that would've come from the intact texts in the Library of Alexandria... mind-blowing to think about. We'd maybe have a more unified world view, less conflict... Who knows?

The loss of the Library of Alexandria was tragic, but the assumption that we'd be SUPER advanced is too optimistic. Knowledge doesn't automatically convert to progress; you gotta consider social and economic factors too. Still, it's pretty cool to think about lost works of great thinkers that could've shaped our modern world view.

Imagine the hardware we'd have if the library hadn't burned, stuff straight outta sci-fi! Quantum computers in the 90s maybe!?