Was the computer predestined at the moment when a person first picked up a stick?
Is there an inevitability of those. progress?
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In Guns, Microbes, and Steel, Diamond makes a compelling case for how progress inevitably flows from geographically determined opportunities to move from hunting and gathering to high-performance agriculture that provides surplus food, explosive population growth, a dedicated class of non-food-producing professionals, and high population density. Where the circumstances for farming were good, progress was inevitable, yes.