Perrin I feel it the one who has done so little with so much. Even though all the players have issues that Dr Phil couldn't figure out. Perrin is the one who doesn't want to be what he is. He fights it all the time. Only accomplishes anything when he is forced to do so because it is the only choice left.

All that being said, his parts of the books are still better than some of the girls parts. I do believe BS is better at writing women than RJ was. Because the women parts of the books now are tolerable compared to the parts were Egwene and Elayne were in the tower as Accepted.

See the future? See the past? You would think that they wouldn't have cracked the Dark Ones Prison if that was the case.

I don't think that the world was more advanced then ours.

I think it actually was our world. Just in a future time when we have Aes Sedai. Go ahead and laugh. But the descriptions of some of the Sangreal etc. Elayne found a statue of a hippy from woodstock. There are others as well. Planes and cars. Flashlights = Glowsticks. Tazers = Shock Lances. It's all there.

So Jordan intentionally put it in the books that way. Because he believed AS acted like Demigods. Which I can see his point. And the economic stagnation can probably be fixed on the AS as well. Why invent something when an AS can do it better in a few moments.

No organized school system.

No organized religion.

Massive war every hundred years or so.

Constant threat of the shadow taking over.

Kind of hard to develop an IPod with those things hanging over your every day life.